Re: New and investigating - Mailing list pgsql-novice

That's interesting.

I have a bunch of DBAs around me. In each project, some more to deal with
the DBs... I grew used to it and thought that was 'normal'.

And the price is high...

Now, i do work in high budget projects, and this is the kind of places where
nobody wants to put its butt at risk when the system goes live. In theory, a
DB like Oracle gives you that level of confidence. (even though we do run
into troubles more often than we'd want).

Where do i obtain information on PostgreSQL that would allow me to have an
acceptable level of trust in it??? (i mean, for example, for a governmental
project, where you will run critical transactions, for a high number of
users, not to store data, or process files in an environment isolated from
an hungry crowd of users. Something where you really need to serve your
users without downtime or congestion, or whatever...).

Alain Gougeon
La Paz, Bolivia.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Fore" <afore@sonic.net>
To: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New and investigating


> The one part I find that is true about Oracle:
>
> Its a fantastic piece of software that requires almost no intervention
> on my part. I talked to one of our oracle dba's about it. He actually
> (im not kidding here) did not believe it could be a database if it did
> not require maintenance.
>
> I have been associated with Oracle in two companies. It is so complex
> you have to hire a consultant at $150 an hour to do anything unless you
> have an Oracle guru on staff, and he probably costs almost as much.
>
> Art
>
>
>
> David Nicely wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:14:50 -0400
> > "Alain Gougeon" <agougeon@sigma.gov.bo> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>. Is it really industrial strength? Where can i find articles/white
> >>papers/etc that document it? (many people in the lists mention MySQL
> >>and stuff like that, that's another ballgame alltogether)
> >>
> >
> >
> > This post may be of interest...
> >
http://www.faqchest.com/prgm/pgsql-l/pgsql-01/pgsql-0107/pgsql-010728/pgsql0
1071613_20151.html
> >
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