[1064] in Moira
Re: [Christoph Hoegl: Moira + Ingres || DB]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu Jan 30 11:24:58 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 11:24:30 -0500 (EST)
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: darkwing@bsdd.regensburg.com
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9701292044.AA09962@dcl.MIT.EDU> (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Hi. Ted Ts'o forwarded your mail to `moiradev' so I could see it. I've
been doing most of the development on Moira lately.
Currently, we've just finished upgrading to an Oracle-based Moira, and
that code will be released (and announced on moira@mit.edu) soon. Krb5
porting is on hold until the krb5 situation at MIT is resolved a bit
further. (We're still mostly running krb4.) This _might_ happen over
the summer. It's hard to say at this point. If you wanted to port it
before then and send us patches, we'd be glad to look at them.
As for porting to a free DBMS, my experience in porting to Oracle was
(1) SQL is not nearly as much of an industry standard as the industry
claims, and (2) You get what you pay for. Several bugs and performance
problems in the Ingres version went away when we switched to Oracle.
Porting to Postgres or mSQL would probably be difficult, and would
most likely result in a slower, less stable system.
-- Dan
