Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-10 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 10/10/19 11:31 π.μ., Wim Bertels wrote: 3) Were there ever any problems with BSD? as far as i understand BSD and variants are very solid, so good for server use, not for desktop Desktop software might be a little old, but that does not mean that this is not usable. I run FreeBSD

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-10 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Pól Ua Laoínecháin (lineh...@tcd.ie) wrote: > > > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? > > > He's full of it, as far as I can tell anyway, based on what you've > > shared with us. Just look at the committers and the commit history to > > PostgreSQL, and look

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 20:06, Pól Ua Laoínecháin wrote: > One of my courses is "Advanced Databases" - yummy I thought - it's not > even compulsory for me but I just *_had_* to take this module. The > lecturer is a bit of an Oracle fan-boy (ACE director no less... > hmmm...) and I want(ed) -

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-10 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 09:31, Wim Bertels wrote: > sometimes people are really a fan of certain product, > sometimes in combination with the thought that all other products are > bad; i don't know if this is the case, you could compare it with > soccer, a barcalona fan will never become a real

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-10 Thread Wim Bertels
> > Now, I have four questions: > > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? Hallo Pol, i don't know, a also teaching a databases, personally i never experienced this sometimes people are really a fan of certain product, sometimes in combination with the thought that all

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Pól Ua Laoínecháin
Hi, and thanks for responding, > First off- please try to craft a new email in the future... My apologies to you and the group - I'll do that in future. > > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? > He's full of it, as far as I can tell anyway, based on what you've >

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Tim Clarke
On 09/10/2019 20:45, Alan Hodgson wrote: > Assuming you're not a troll ... > > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:06 +0100, Pól Ua Laoínecháin wrote: >> 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? > He's more than full of it. PostgreSQL has had a few bugs over the year > that could have

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
Assuming you're not a troll ... On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:06 +0100, Pól Ua Laoínecháin wrote: > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? > He's more than full of it. PostgreSQL has had a few bugs over the year that could have resulted in data corruption, but they're pretty

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, First off- please try to craft a new email in the future rather than respond to an existing one. You may not realize this but there's some headers that get copied when you do a reply that cause the email to show up as being a reply, even if you remove all the "obvious" bits from it.

Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Pól Ua Laoínecháin
Hi all, I recently started a Masters in Computer Science (and not at the institution in my email address). One of my courses is "Advanced Databases" - yummy I thought - it's not even compulsory for me but I just *_had_* to take this module. The lecturer is a bit of an Oracle fan-boy (ACE