Re: PG vs. Oracle for larger databases - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Wolfe
Subject Re: PG vs. Oracle for larger databases
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In response to PG vs. Oracle for larger databases  (Erich <hh@cyberpass.net>)
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> How suitable is PG for doing larger databases?  The need I am
> considering would be a financial database that does maybe up to 100k
> transactions/day.

  In a day?  I think a lot of us do that much in an hour....

> Obviously, it needs to be very reliable, and have
> minimal scheduled, and no unscheduled downtime.  Should this project
> be on Oracle or Postgres?

  The only "unscheduled" downtime we've had with postgreSQL was when one of
our programmers ran the disk out of space, which will give any database
server fits. ; )

steve



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