Re: Oracle support for PostgreSQL?

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:24 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Jussi Mikkola <jussi(dot)mikkola(at)bonware(dot)com> wrote:
> > Now that Oracle is selling support for RedHat linux, does this mean that
> > Oracle will also support PostgreSQL?
> 
> I really doubt it.  IIRC, RedHat no longer supports PostgreSQL (or
> their variant RedHat Database) directly; and the version that was
> supported was quite old.
> 
> Tom Lane would know more about version-specifics... but I don't see
> Oracle supporting PostgreSQL or MySQL any time soon.  Just because
> they're part of the distro doesn't mean they're totally supported by
> the Linux vendor.

I bet if I bought Unbreakable Linux and asked for PostgreSQL support
they would support it. Distributions vendors will typically support
whatever they ship on their core CD.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
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