Re: About Berkeley DB2 Databases

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:27:20 -0400 (VET) Ricardo Núñez <rinunez@usb.ve> wrote: > Mensaje citado por: "Gonzalez, Lorenzo" <gonzalez@gltg.com>: > > > I thought '--with-db2' meant you'd get a DB2 (IBM) driver... what has > > DB2 got to do with Berkeley? > > > > An I suffering a bit of confusion between IBM's DB2 product, and > > Berkeley database tables, and PHP's support of these? > > > > I can tell you that IBM DB2 is a RELATIONAL Database Management system, but Berkeley Databases > are not, but the could be the BASE of a relational database management system (if you want read > http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/refs/bdb_usenix.html). > > --with-db2 include BERKELEY DB2 (BERKELEY Databases version # 2) support. > > --with-ibm-db2 IS the option to include IBM DB2 support. > > I'm learning about Berkeley DB2 files because the are used in Linux systems and the are > efficient. I never successed to install php with Berk. db2 support. db3 with dba works fine (except a bug, store extra suffs when create a new db, in my case it's the script itself...). Any tips welcome. pa