Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: Bricklen <bricklen-rem_at_yahoo.comz>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:18:03 GMT
Message-ID: <Lufbc.1251$h24.1134@edtnps84>

JEDIDIAH wrote:

> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.databases.oracle.server.]
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> The lack of replication, clustering, hot backups & point in time
> recovery make Postgres a toy. It's simply not robust enough for
> critical deployments.
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>>is rather more than a "toy" these days. You talk of slander yet seem
>>to be second to none in the bias department.

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> Postgres is suitable if your data is completely disposable.
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One benefit of postgresql that I've noticed is that is it remarkably easy to write code to handle the backup and recovery of the db automatically. We had a remote client where we had to set up such a process and it worked fine. To back up pg, you just dump the db to a file, then only a few simple steps are needed to recreate the whole works automagically.

disclaimer: pg is nowhere near Oracle in functionality, but it does have it's uses for certain things. Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 09:18:03 CST