On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If anybody puts together a "just the facts" document after Oracle's attack > on PostgreSQL in Russia, please make sure it's drawn to the attention of > this mailing list for the benefit of those who aren't in -advocacy. > > I was discussing this sort of thing elsewhere in the context of MS's > apparent challenge to Oracle and IBM, and the dominant feeling appeared to > be that actual use of things like Oracle RAC was vanishingly uncommon. Which > surprised me, and which I'm treating with caution since the fact that > facilities aren't used (in a certain population of developers etc.) can in > no way be interpreted as meaning that the technology is not unavailable or > unreliable. I've submitted three different bug reports and had a patch within 48 hours each time. the responsiveness of this list, and the folks who code PostgreSQL is far above any level of support I've ever gotten from Oracle. I once asked Oracle to please package the newest connection libs into an RPM for RHEL5 and their response was "do it yourself." Yeah, I know which database has REAL, USEFUL support for a DBA and it isn't Oracle. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
