Don Baccus wrote: > The interesting thing to me doesn't simply lie in the debate over this or that >feature. > The interesting thing to me is that more and more requests to ease porting from >Oracle > to Postgres are cropping up. > > This says that more and more people from the "real" RDBMS world are starting to take > Postgres seriously. Speaking for myself, I think Larry has enough money. The costs of Oracle are astounding. As I see it, I think Postgres could be the "single server" answer to the sky high per processor licensing that Oracle has. A Postgres with enough Oracle-isms would be a world beater. As it is, when I show Oracle people what Postgres can do, they are blown away. They love the fact that temporary tables are in an isolated name space, sequences are more flexible, and a lot of the other neat features. If we could do: select * from database.table.field where database.table.field = localtable.field; select * from table where field = :var; and not have to vacuum Postgres would be incredible. As it is, it is a great database. If it could have features which make Oracle people comfortable it would be a very serious alternative to Oracle. Companies like Greatbridge and PostgreSQL inc. would have a much easier sell. -- 42 was the answer, 49 was too soon. ------------------------ http://www.mohawksoft.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
