Re: Oracle2PostgreSQL Migration with PL/pgSQL

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:08:59 +0100
Message-ID: <b4hroc$7ua$1_at_dackel.pdb.sbs.de>


"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 ;-) [Quoted]
Last time I tried I crashed it twice in one day. Seems, postgres' response to faulty [Quoted] [Quoted] sql is not an error message but a crash with data corruption.

[Quoted] Sorry, but nothing doing here.

Greetings!
Volker Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 12:08:59 CET

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