Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:20:22 -0700
Message-ID: <1083705620.436283@yasure>

Bricklen wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
>

>>
>> PostgreSQL is highly overrated and not suitable for any environment
>> where little things like crash recovery and security are a priority.
>>

> In what sense is Postgresql overrrated?
> Have you used the newer versions of PG recently?
>
> Not to say that I'm advocating using PG for a "high-end commercial
> application", but I've been working with it for several months now,
> along with our Oracle db's, and it has served our needs well without
> failure. Obviously, Oracle has more going for it, but that's to be
> expected from a perennial market leader.
>
> ...or were you just trying to start another flame war?

Not interested in flame wars ... just facts. Corrupt the data with a byte editor and try to recover.

If you succeed then I'll withdraw my comment with respect to the most recent version.

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