[Vmail-discuss] popboxes MAX

Chris Lightfoot chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:35:40 +0000


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:30:57PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:19:06PM +0000, Paul Warren wrote:
> > Changing to Postgres would be a fair amount of work.  Implementing a
> > limit on POP boxes in Perl can be done with a relatively simple patch.
> 
> Hmm, I had it working on Oracle for a while and it didn't seem *that*
> much extra work, FWIW (and I'm but a newbie with Oracle). Most of the
> work was in the set-up phase (where SQL convention & syntax is least
> widely shared). Oh, and getting rid of those daft joins :-)

Yeah. Most of the work with switching databases is
normally in changing the initialisation syntax.... A port
to PG is certainly a possibility....

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