RE: [GENERAL] Re: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission criticalapplications?

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Barnes wrote:

> It would be helpful to me to hear about successful and stable
> implementations as well.  If some of you who are using PostgreSQL
> successfully could comment on your experiences, I think it would shed some
> worthwhile light on it's capabilities.  I'm considering using it for a
> mission critical project, and I would like to know what I am getting into.
> Thank you.

At work, its the backend for our DNS/DHCP tables, servicing over 4000
lap/desktops ...

For business, its the accounting backend for two ISPs that I work with for
their dialup lines, is the backend for the search engine that Vince and I
are currently working on getting online for PostgreSQL...is the backend
for a project I'm working with that deals with, esssentially, resource
management for banks...

The only one above that I don't consider "mission critical" is the
search...

 >
> David Barnes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
> [mailto:owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Ed Loehr
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:23 AM
> To: Jochen Topf
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission
> criticalapplications?
>
>
> > > My question of an earlier posting is still not answered. Does anybody
> > here,
> > > who reported PostgreSQL to be very stable, use advanced features like
> > pl/pgsql
> > > procedures, triggers, rules and notifies? Lets have a show of hands. I
> > would
> > > really like to know, why I am the only one having problems. :-) Although
> > > it might be, because, as this is a PostgreSQL mailing list, most of the
> > > readers are people who are happy with PostgreSQL, because all the others
> > > have left and are on an Oracle list now. :-)
>
> I use triggers, PL/pgSQL procedures/functions, and rules on 6.5.2, and I
> have
> experienced a number of what might be called instability problems for
> whatever
> reason.  A review of the posts to the pgsql mailing lists will confirm that
> you
> are not alone in finding some points of instability.  But the extent of any
> instability is not clear.  Watch for a web poll announcement in January to
> get
> a better handle on that data...
>
> Cheers,
> Ed Loehr
>
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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