Gustavo Perez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know i'll burn hell for a long time for this post, but here I go
>
> I'm a sysadmin/webadmin and I looking for a little help.
>
> A few time ago I used to work with IDS 7.31 (win2k). A nice feature
> was the ability of avoiding repeteable reads, reads uncommited wich are
> in fact a part of the SQL standar by locking the row's, so the
> concurrency was better.
>
> Right now I've moved to a new jobs, and although we work with linux
> (i do prefer linux rather than windows) here, I have postgreSQL
> available. PostgreSQL includes a new feature called MVCC, but has
> problem whenever two transactions are using the same row(s). The
> alternative is a table lock, wich is worse (IMHO).
>
> After all this stuff, my question is :
>
> - Is there a 'free' version of Informix for linux platforms (mind
> the 'free'. As IBM bought Informix, maybe there is some Informix's stuff
> free avalailable),

Try www.iiug.org. You need to become a member, but it's free.

> - Is there any newsgroup about postgreSQL ( I've checked
> alt.postgres, but no posting at all). Looking for information I've been
> checking www.postgresql.org, and a lot of url's, but seems that there
> are not much information about that).

Try news:linux.postgres never been there, but it looks like a logical
location.

Cheers,
--
Mark.

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