[ale] WooHoo!! PostgreSQL 9.1!

[jhubbslist at att.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

More like a road that never should have gone to Oracle in the first 
place.  With PostgreSQL around, there's little need for Oracle.

BTW, I always fully pronounce and type PostgreSQL; referring to it as 
"Postgres" is surprisingly analogous to referring to Microsoft SQL 
Server as "Sybase."</pedantry>

On 9/18/11 8:26 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> Most of the horsepower of oracle but all open source.  Has more data types
>> than any other. And now has security features exceeding oracle. DBA can't by
> I've been on the fence about moving future development efforts towards
> either Maria or PostgreSQL. I used PostgreSQL a lot in the
> late 1990's and swapped because my focus went towards smaller simpler
> web applications and MySQL was more common.
>
> MySQL is awesome, and I learned that if you treat it like
> a flat file database (not an RDBMS) it can do wonders.
> But it has limits. The lack of a crosstab function
> was my first scream into the void. (Yeah, I did the work-arounds
> and made my own crosstab functions)
>
> The tone of your emails and the features touted by yourselves
> and digging around the PostgreSQL website made me realize
> that it was time to build a basic app, using PostgreSQL
> and march down that road again to see where it goes.
>
> That road leads away from Oracle. :)
>
> Just wanted to say THANK YOU for the excellent
> rational lengthy emails several of you have posted.
>
>
>
>
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