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"Guido Stepken" <stepken_at_little-idiot.de> wrote in message news:b4djf0$beb$06$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> Hi, out there !
>
> I am writing on a Oracle to PostgreSQL migration handbook.
>
> Seems, that PostgreSQL 7.4 (still beta) works quite fine in emulating
> pl/SQL language. Clustering, MVCC (Multi Versioning Concurrency
> Control), hot backup ... large databases (> 1 Tera), Query
> caching/hashing, server side scripting with pl/pgSQL emulation seems to
> work now. Very powerful RAD tools exist for postgresql. Oracle tools can
> be used for development, due to compatibility.
>
> PostgreSQL IMHO more and more becomes a Oracle killer. Worth, writing a
> small book about it ;-)
Last time I tried I crashed it twice in one day. Seems, postgres' response to faulty
sql is not an error message but a crash with data corruption.
Sorry, but nothing doing here.
Greetings!
Volker
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 05:08:59 CST