Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Oracle2PostgreSQL Migration with PL/pgSQL

Re: Oracle2PostgreSQL Migration with PL/pgSQL

From: amanda <amanda94621_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 16 Mar 2003 21:01:05 -0800
Message-ID: <bbea23b7.0303162101.618e8bfa@posting.google.com>


DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3E6F600E.C55A5E20_at_exesolutions.com>...
> 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.

 Can you give a comparison between SQL server and Oracle? Which will stay dominant in industry?

>
> As Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) said:
> "There are three types of liars in the world, liars, damned liars, and
> statisticians."
>
> Daniel Morgan
Received on Sun Mar 16 2003 - 23:01:05 CST

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US