Thread: PG vs. Oracle for larger databases

How suitable is PG for doing larger databases?  The need I am
considering would be a financial database that does maybe up to 100k
transactions/day.  Obviously, it needs to be very reliable, and have
minimal scheduled, and no unscheduled downtime.  Should this project
be on Oracle or Postgres?

thankks,

e

> How suitable is PG for doing larger databases?  The need I am
> considering would be a financial database that does maybe up to 100k
> transactions/day.

  In a day?  I think a lot of us do that much in an hour....

> Obviously, it needs to be very reliable, and have
> minimal scheduled, and no unscheduled downtime.  Should this project
> be on Oracle or Postgres?

  The only "unscheduled" downtime we've had with postgreSQL was when one of
our programmers ran the disk out of space, which will give any database
server fits. ; )

steve