postgresql

[Sharpe, Richard]

Erik

	I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite
RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX
flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down
better than Oracle.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Price [mailto:eprice at ptc.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:58 AM
To: Cole Tuininga
Cc: discuss at gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: postgresql



Cole Tuininga wrote:

> I agree that it has some great features, but when we looked into using
> it, we found some serious drawbacks to it.  If anybody has comments on
> these, I'd be very interested to hear them.

I don't have any comments except to say thanks for mentioning them Cole, 
because I didn't know about any of these.  So, just out of curiosity, 
which database(s) do you prefer*?  Again, I've only used MySQL 3.2.x and 
HSQLDB so experimenting with some of Postgres's features has been quite 
a bit of fun, but I haven't done any real testing or taken a "serious" 
look at it.  I'm using it as the back-end for the project I'm working 
on, and none of the mentioned problems are real showstoppers -- but I've 
also been careful to make sure that the project abstracts this enough to 
make it trivial to use another DB.


(* don't feel you have to limit your answer to OSS DBs, though of course 
those are always preferred [to me] -- but I personally wouldn't be 
interested in any DB that doesn't at least run on Linux.)


Erik


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