"Chad" <chadzakary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: "What we need now is an open source DB with clean APIs into various places in the software stack (eg we need a Berkeley DB kind of API under the hood into something like Postgres) A full bells and whistles relational DB with these low level ACCESS APIs will be a powerfull thing in the future. PostgreSQL take note. If you don't already have it you should begin exposing such a thing today in my humble opinion." I am quite happy with the c-language API for postgres, as far as it's capabilities and access to low-level postgres. OK, the docs and examples could be better. Am I missing something in Chad's comments/warnings or is he missing something in not understanding pg better? Chad, could you say more about what in the BDB/API is missing and needed in postgres? Could it be that Oracle's recent company purchases were intended simply to confuse people about the future of MySQL and therefore ecourage them to select Oracle? TJ O'Donnell http://www.gnova.com/