From owner-freebsd-www Thu May 15 06:51:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA18974 for www-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 06:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vinyl.quickweb.com (vinyl.quickweb.com [206.222.77.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA18965; Thu, 15 May 1997 06:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost) by vinyl.quickweb.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA16547; Thu, 15 May 1997 09:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:46:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: Doug White cc: John-Mark Gurney , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , webmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help! apache doesn't send cgi's output... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 May 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > would be nice to be able to search the database using > > > miniSQL ;) > > > > well.. it shouldn't be that hard to adapt to SQL... just never done > > any SQL programming... Doug, you have an easy example to use? > > I have ancient stuff I wrote last year that's quite crusty but would serve > as a decent start to the mSQL C API. The API is quite straightforward, > actually -- the worst part is that you have to stick together strings for > the queries and you know how well C does string manipulation (wink wink).. [SNIP]> > mSQL would do that for you. Disadvantage is that someone has to run the > daemon, but it's quite small and requires no user intervention once > running, and it's very, very fast. Take a look at PostreSQL as well, if you're in the market for a free database! I've just switched and I like the PostreSQL much more than mSQL. More features, quicker, and a cleaner C API (IMHO). I'm quite impressed. http://www.postresql.org for the info. Oh, a much friendlier license as well... -Mark > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert