RE: [GENERAL] info on people running postgre

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Juan Alvarez Ferrando wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have tryed PostgreSQL as the backend of a Java application used to
> collect orders and other information. Everything would have been fine but
> for the lack of row-level locking, and some problems with processes that go
> hanged when locked for to long. Also we have experienced a couple of
> corruptions on a table that suffers the deletion and insertion of 46000
> records every day, and some sporadic and misterious backend crashes.
>
> Table-locking has forced us to quit from PostgreSQL and move to Oracle. So
> if you need a read-only  (or single user) database with moderate performance
> (any comercial one is faster), PostgreSQL will probably give you what you
> need in this other aspects: good SQL, ease of use and administration, really
> thin JDBC type 4 driver; and you may find to need more of:
>
> Export/import tools

    pg_dump and psql

> Backend stability

    would love to see more information on this ..

> Crash recovery
> Programming interfaces doc.

    huh?

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