Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Dave Coventry
I would just like to add my voice to those praising the community support provided by this list. I am not a DBA, and merely tinker with a few databases, mostly on the web. As such, my questions have occasionally bordered on the very silly, but I have always had them answered courteously, helpfully

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Friday 24. June 2011 06.01.31 Greg Smith wrote: > The idea that PostgreSQL is reverse engineered from Oracle is > ridiculous. Maybe he believes that SQL was invented by Oracle? regards, Leif -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscr

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le jeudi 23 juin 2011 à 18:14 -0700, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet a écrit : > Here: > > http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresql.html > > Any comments? > There is a previous post by the same author : http://craigglendenning.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-fight-to-stay-

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Friday 24. June 2011 03.14.39 Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: > Here: > > http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresq > l.html > > Any comments? I think he got a point in «Oracle as the second largest software company in the world» which is a killer argument

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Greg Smith
On 06/23/2011 10:28 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: I love how he finishes with the claim that Oracle "keep their finger on the pulse of where IT is headed", right after admitting that their client is actually a huge piece of junk. Oracle is able to keep their finger on the pulse of their customer

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread John R Pierce
I love how he finishes with the claim that Oracle "keep their finger on the pulse presumably, he means, the jugular ... -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-24 Thread Albe Laurenz
Stephen Frost wrote: > I love how he finishes with the claim that Oracle "keep their finger on > the pulse of where IT is headed", right after admitting that their > client is actually a huge piece of junk. I guess that was just a typo. Shouldn't it read "[Oracle can] keep their fingers on the thr

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: > Here: > > http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresql.html > > Any comments? That is quite possibly one of the most ignorant opinion pieces I've ever read. The janitor in Dilbert is significantly

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Uwe Schroeder
> On 06/24/2011 09:14 AM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: > I'm quite surprised the article didn't mention the importance of having > "somebody to sue if it goes wrong", which is a comment I often see made > re Oracle. It's lucky they didn't try to stress that point, because > evidence of succes

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread sfrost
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Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Uwe Schroeder
> > http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgre > > sql.html > > > > Any comments? > > Amusing. > > " > What kind of support is available if we have a problem? What is their > patching schedule to address exploits and known security defects? If > there is a bug, h

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 06/24/2011 09:14 AM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: Here: http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresql.html Any comments? He's been working with Oracle too long, and forgotten that it's a database not a career and a lifestyle? More seriously: it's all a

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Greg Smith
On 06/23/2011 10:28 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: Next, PG doesn't even use the same basic technology as Oracle regarding how transaction isolation and versioning works. Oracle using rollback segments to store 'old' rows in, while PG uses a Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) system. They're fu

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread C. Bensend
> http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresql.html > > Any comments? Amusing. " What kind of support is available if we have a problem? What is their patching schedule to address exploits and known security defects? If there is a bug, how responsive is the organi

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Rodrigo E. De León Plicet (rdele...@gmail.com) wrote: > Any comments? Sure, they've never bothered to actually look at the data. Consider that for quite a while Oracle essentially refused to admit that their could *possibly* be bugs in their system (see: Unbreakable Linux, or whatever that fool

[GENERAL] Oracle / PostgreSQL comparison...

2011-06-23 Thread Rodrigo E . De León Plicet
Here: http://cglendenningoracle.blogspot.com/2011/06/oracle-vs-postgres-postgresql.html Any comments? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general