As a long-time user of Postgres, (First started using it at 7.0) I'm reading recently that Firebird has been taking off as a database. Perhaps this is not the best place to ask this, but is there any compelling advantage to using Firebird over Postgres? We have a large database (almost 100 tables of highly normalized data) heavily loaded with foreign keys and other constraints, and our application makes heavy use of transactions. I say this as my company's growth has been exponential, showing no sign of letting up soon, and I'm reviewing clustering and replication technologies so that we can continue to scale as nicely as we have to date with our single server. (now with a load avg around .30 typically) -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings