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Issue 6.2

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Database Servers for REALbasic

PostgreSQL

Issue: 6.2 (January/February 2008)
Author: Paul Lefebvre
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is President and Chief Software Architect of LogicalVue Software and founder of RBDevZone.
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 6,071
Starting Page Number: 31
Article Number: 6212
Related Web Link(s):

http://www2.entropy.ch/download/pgsql-8.2.5.pkg.tar.gz
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
http://aliacta.com/products/pgsql4rb.htm

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Last time we looked at FrontBase, a decent, free cross-platform database server. This time we'll be looking at PostgreSQL, one of the most powerful and free cross-platform database servers.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org) is a full-featured database server that is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. It has a reputation for being difficult to install and use, but as we'll see, that reputation is completely unfounded.

Currently at version 8.2.5, PostgreSQL has many features you'd associate with a professional database server, including:

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