Re: Stability, PR
От | Corey W. Gibbs |
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Тема | Re: Stability, PR |
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Msg-id | 01C201AA.F8D4A9F0.cgibbs@westmarkproducts.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Stability, PR ("Reuven M. Lerner" <reuven@lerner.co.il>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
I love the "non technical techies", i know one who spent three days writing a program to time the "connect time", "retrieve time" and "delete time" on an access datafile and a postgres server. He did this to prove to me that "access would be quicker *sigh*. Needless to say, when we got down to select *'s and working with recordsets, PG came out on top. anywho, i did an impromptu survey not long ago on who's using Postgresql, it i posted the responses to the group, it should be in the archives. Not once did i see any references to data integrity. BTW, thanks to everyone for their reponses again. We're going full steam ahead on migrating the Access app to Postgres. It saved our company at least 60k USD not going to MS-SQL. ~corey "Why Postgres? Why not?" -----Original Message----- From: Steve Wolfe [SMTP:steve@iboats.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:24 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Stability, PR > Over the last 4-6 weeks, however, several potential clients > questioning my choice of PostgreSQL, saying that it has a reputation > for instability. These comments didn't come from people who are > against using open-source software; my choice of Linux, Apache, > mod_perl, Zope, or OpenACS (depending on the project) was generally > applauded. From what I've read, I've inferred that long, long ago, very early versions of PG weren't all that great - but I have no personal experience with them, so I can neither confirm nor deny that. What I CAN tell you, though, is this: The amount of idiotic statements that I've heard about PostgreSQL is amazing. Nearly all of it has come from "non-technical techies". You know, the people who sell computers, deal with computer-related investments, manage technically-competant people, but aren't actually capable of doing anything useful with a computer themselves. I've had to deal with a (seemingly) innumerable host of these kinds of people. For some, a simple review of the performance, scalability, and rock-solid reliability of our PG servers is enough. For others, it's not, and they really seem bent on the idea of us using something different. My response to them is "Sure, we'll do it. And you'll only have to fork over a few hundred thousand dollars, maybe half a million, to cover the licensing fees and hardware upgrades to get us to the level we're at right now." Somehow, that seems to help them understand a little more clearly... steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
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