But Daniel developer demand for Postgress is growing exponentially faster
than Oracle. :-)
Jim
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"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
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> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> > > > [...] and there are instead places where PITR is needed
> > > > thus PostgreSQL isn't yet an option.
> > >
> > > Ok, from my (very limited) experience I would agree that Oracle
> > > provides abundantly in the "Pain In The Rectum" department, but why
> > > would you actually *want* that?
> >
> > Heaps of low-end Oracle users are switching to PostgreSQL all the time.
> > They complained that the admin overhead for PostgreSQL was far too low.
> > They missed having to create rollback segments and having queries fail
when
> > there wasn't enough segments, that they had to run in special partitions
> > etc. Basically, it wasn't painful enough.
> >
> > Hence, we will be adding extra Pain In The Rectum support in 7.4 :)
> >
> > Chris
>
> BTW: Anyone paying attention isn't creating rollback segments in Oracle 9i
> either.
>
> Lets try a different tack on what is obviously a matter of religious faith
for
> you ... I don't carry whether I work in Oracle, or mySQL, or DB2, or
Pascal. I
> work to support my family and put food on the table. So lets look at this
from
> the totally self-serving prospect of my ability to accomplish my goals
rather
> than the goals of some marketing dweeb.
>
> How much money per hour can you get and how many jobs are available at
dice.com
> for PostgreSQL vs. Oracle?
>
> Oracle 3,539 ... PostgreSQL 2
>
> Well maybe dice.com isn't representative ... I'll try monster.com
>
> Oracle (more than 5000) ... PostgreSQL 10
>
> Enjoy your marginal employment.
>
> "Heaps of low-end Oracle users are switching to PostgreSQL all the time.".
> That means more than two?
> Larry probably can't sleep at night.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 20:22:05 CST
