Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-23 Thread Curt Sampson
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Fred Zellinger wrote: With Oracle, you can screw around with files and tablespaces and extents and segments and partition striping and local and global indexing and block sizes and 400+ other tuning parameters to your heart's content. ... I am a control freak and I think

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:29, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: I'm just saying that there are *some* small arcane details in postgres, too (although, at least, they don't affect stability, just performance). Indeed you are right... Pg has its own

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Fred Zellinger
I work in an all Oracle shop, with server instances around the world. At least 20 servers are 400Gb+ and a couple are 4 Terabyte+. I tooks $15k worth of Oracle training, have set up my own instances and done Perl/CGI/Apache work along with setting up really big data warehousing apps for

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, mlw wrote: I just wanted to post this note. I have been in Oracle hell for four days now, and in between the 5 minutes of work and the hours of watings, dealing with table spaces, I've been in Informix hell for the month or so. At first, we were getting the message No

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:17:42AM -0500, Jeff wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, mlw wrote: So with all that, you gotta appreciate both sides - hte fact pg just works and the tunability of bigger db's (Oh yeah - and we've actually had informix on the horn about the problem - their solution was

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Petru Paler
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:50:49AM -0600, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: suggestion to upgrade to a not yet released version invariably includes the option of applying the patch yourself. Not something Oracle can offer. Not for a sane price, I guess. I believe the high end support contracts include

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread mlw
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder writes: - postgres should auto-tune itself - the *cost could perhaps be adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there should be some sensible way to determine an optimal setting for the famous

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Fred Zellinger wrote: I also am a Linux Nut and use Postgres whenever possible because I like the freedom of access to the HACKERS mailing list...something only a few highly renound DBA snobs have with Oracle. Indeed, I think this is a significant component of the appeal of open source I

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder writes: - postgres should auto-tune itself - the *cost could perhaps be adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there should be some sensible way to determine an optimal setting for the famous shared_buffers (and the default should be

[HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread mlw
I just wanted to post this note. I have been in Oracle hell for four days now, and in between the 5 minutes of work and the hours of watings, dealing with table spaces, extents, and all that, I just keep thinking about how much easier PostgreSQL is to work with. We all may bitch and moan

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, mlw wrote: I just wanted to post this note. I have been in Oracle hell for four days now, and in between the 5 minutes of work and the hours of watings, dealing with table spaces, extents, and all that, I just keep thinking about how much easier PostgreSQL is to

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread mlw
Gavin Sherry wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, mlw wrote: I just wanted to post this note. I have been in Oracle hell for four days now, and in between the 5 minutes of work and the hours of watings, dealing with table spaces, extents, and all that, I just keep thinking about how

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
snippage The Oracle system stops from time to time because of various arcane reasons. You get the error message, look it up on alltheweb.com, and fix it. The whole system is bogus. It DEMANDS a full time DBA. PostgreSQL does not. I could be accused of being cynical here (gosh)... but I

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
(i.e. arcane little need to know things that trap all but the initiated... So, for postgres, that means: - a good thing the autovacuum thingy is coming along - postgres should auto-tune itself - the *cost could perhaps be adjusted after some statistics have been collected, and there should

Re: [HACKERS] Oracle rant

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: I'm just saying that there are *some* small arcane details in postgres, too (although, at least, they don't affect stability, just performance). Indeed you are right... Pg has its own collection of arcane details too, but hopefully the culture of