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! -- Gerard
