From: Dominic J. Eidson [mailto:sauron@the-infinite.org] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:09 AM

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

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Agreed, but some code requires it. Which was my point. I'm talking smaller vendors, like Oracle. BTW, how do I fake in-addr.arpa responses for NAT'd space? My Oracle 8i server keeps checking the reverse addr every time I try to create a DB. It's really annoying. Funny thing, my DB2 servers do the same thing ...

I find it funny that PostgreSQL - while being used as replacement for Oracle by more and more people - does _not_ have this problem... I didn't even have a NIC in the server when I installed it...

(And yes, PostgreSQL does have ACL's - but the ACL list is checked at connection time - not everytime you execute a DML statement.)

Are you seriously suggesting using PostgreSQL over Oracle, in production? Mind you, I do pgsql too. But, not in high-volume production.