Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

On 6/13/20 1:46 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jun  3, 2020 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>> I agree these are all technical issues, but nevertheless - "implementation
>> details", which DBAs don't care about. What's important from a DBA's
>> perspective is not whether WAL is cluster-wide or database-wide, but whether
>> it's possible to manage backups/PITR/restores of individual databases in a more
>> convenient matter, which other RDBMS-vendors seem to provide.
>>   
>> I love PG, have been using it professionally since 6.5, and our company depends
>> on it, but there are things other RDBMS-vendors do better...
> The bigger issue is that while we _could_ do this, it would add more
> problems and complexity, and ultimately, I think would make the
> software less usable overall and would be a net-negative.  We know of no
> way to do it without a ton of negatives.

How do other RDBMSs do it with ease?  (I know it's an architectural issue, 
but what's the architectural issue?)

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