Re: Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

On Monday April 09, 2007 at 10:19:53 (AM) Erik Jones wrote:


> On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
> >
> >> Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL
> >> DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL?
> >> I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come
> >> up to speed in a very short time as long as they were interested
> >> in doing so.
> >
> > We've been working with a consultant to re-design/optimize some
> > existing DB systems we have running, and his background is mostly
> > Oracle and DB/2.  Some of the optimizations -- actually
> > operationally related choices on how to do things -- are remarkably
> > off-base for Postgres.
>
> Can you give some examples of this?  It's not that I don't believe
> you, I'd just like some concrete examples from someone in your
> situation.

Erik, would it be possible for you to post in 'plain text' and not HTML?
This is a mail forum, not a web page.

Thanks!

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Gerard