This locker contains database packages that may be used freely at MIT, if not world-wide. Check the particular package for copyright restrictions. It has not been used much in the past, but we hope that that's about to change. Maintainers include dkk and yandros@mit. Source trees are kept under src; installed versions are kept in a subtree with an `obvious' name, since most of these packages expect to be installed in their own subdirectory. (i.e. /mit/databases/pgsql). Contents: postgresql PostgreSQL is a mostly-ANSI SQL-compliant RDBMS database server, from the Berkeley research product. It has also been known as `postgres' and `postgres95', although the changes are significant. Copyright terms are in the COPYRIGHT file, but are generally very amenable to use. Old Contents: rdb Relational database coded in perl and still under development (8/94) postgres A regular code-for-it-in-C RDBMS. I think. msql A DBMS from Bond U in Australia. v0.3 will add "join"...