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