Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 15, 2002 01:00 AM
It's perfect for many applications. It's more featureful in many ways than commercial database servers (MSSQLServer, particularly; I hate that piece of crap). It's stable, has a nice command line utility (nicer than Oracle's, I think; nothing need be said about the crufty MySQL one), and is generally suitable for important applications.
When I say "enterprise database," I assume something about the nature of the applications to be run on it. It's definitely capable of handling online commerce and other OLTP type apps. Just, when your business is really big, and really, really important - you need more than PostgreSQL provides right now. I'd love to have it mature more, and I think it will.
I think it deserved to completely displace MySQL, and probably MSSQLServer (which has some clustering and failover, but lacks so many of the features that, once you find them in PostgreSQL you wonder how the MS people never got around to stealing them). The ease of server side programmability in a variety of languages alone makes it incredibly powerful (Java, Perl, Python, TCL [ugh]).
But it's not Oracle, and can't replace it in the places where people need to use Oracle. That was my point.
Oh and yes, Linux has a way to catch up to BSD. :-)
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i wasn't knocking PostgreSQL
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 15, 2002 01:00 AMWhen I say "enterprise database," I assume something about the nature of the applications to be run on it. It's definitely capable of handling online commerce and other OLTP type apps. Just, when your business is really big, and really, really important - you need more than PostgreSQL provides right now. I'd love to have it mature more, and I think it will.
I think it deserved to completely displace MySQL, and probably MSSQLServer (which has some clustering and failover, but lacks so many of the features that, once you find them in PostgreSQL you wonder how the MS people never got around to stealing them). The ease of server side programmability in a variety of languages alone makes it incredibly powerful (Java, Perl, Python, TCL [ugh]).
But it's not Oracle, and can't replace it in the places where people need to use Oracle. That was my point.
Oh and yes, Linux has a way to catch up to BSD. :-)
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