Re: Oracle2PostgreSQL Migration with PL/pgSQL

Jim Kennedy wrote:

> But Daniel developer demand for Postgress is growing exponentially faster
> than Oracle. :-)
> Jim
>
> --
> Replace part of the email address: kennedy-down_with_spammers_at_attbi.com
> with family. Remove the negative part, keep the minus sign. You can figure
> it out.
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> news:3E6E1038.65A0DFE_at_exesolutions.com...
> > 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
> >

On that I will agree.

And, on average, more people are choosing suicide over Oracle too.

As Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) said:
"There are three types of liars in the world, liars, damned liars, and statisticians."

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Mar 12 2003 - 10:27:58 CST