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Pervasive Software's Postgres 8 is an enterprise level RDBMS that is dependable even when a system crashes. Native Windows service support is provided, and the free release is under the BSD license. However, commercial support is only provided for a few recent enterprise level Linux distributions, and the pqAdmin may freeze. Postgres 8 is based on version 8.0.1 of the free, open source PostgreSQL database, which competes with MySQL. Postgres 8 allows the database to run as a Windows service on various Windows platforms, including Windows 2000 Professional and Server, 2003 Standard and Enterprise, and XP Professional. Postgres 8 is compatible with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, SuSE Professional 9.1 and 9.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Fedora Core 2 and 3. For the enterprise, there is support for table spaces and server side languages, improved table alteration support, and point-in-time recovery. Installation was easy, and users set up a test server. Users can make changes to a table, such as type of column, without recreating the table anew. Another excellent new feature is better support for server-side languages, including Perl, pgSQL, Tcl, Python, and C. With point-in-time recovery, the database is backed up continuously so that very little data will be lost if the system fails, and the system can be rolled back to a known good point in time.
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