Re: i feel like compelled ! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;">Ohwell... then, THANKS GUYS!!!<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; "> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I'm not the original poster,
btw.<pstyle="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; "> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I felt a bit 'abandoned' a while back, since I started using
Interbase/Firebirdsince, like, ~2000. But since Firebird never really took off, I felt I had to look for better
solutions.I worked with Oracle for a bit, and then MySQL. But I found Oracle to be expensive (obviously) and too
intrusiveinto my OS (Linux, many flavours, but mostly RedHat-based).<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; "> <p style=" margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">What I
reallyliked about Firebird, and then Postgres made me feel right at home, was standards-compliance with SQL and great
featureset. I find myself most-often-than-not guessing how something ought to work in Postgres, based on past
experiences,and finding that it works exactly (mostly) like it 'should'. Plus, I found many new things that I loved and
changedthe way I think about stuff, like using Python for SP, JSON fields and RegEx in WHERE. And a special mention to
theAsync NOTIFY stuff which <span style=" font-style:italic;">finally</span> works like it 'should' in a DB (Firebird
hadsomething like that, but with no payload).<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; "> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Also, how postgres is easy to
deployreally helps. For example, I use it with a Qt App, which is compiled in MinGW. So I recompiled libpq with the
samecompiler, thus avoiding extra DLLs. <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; "> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Thanks!<p
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-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; "> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
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-qt-user-state:0;">OnThursday 14 May 2015 09:48:35 Gavin Flower wrote:<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> On 14/05/15 09:35, essam
Gndeleeessam wrote:<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
text-indent:0px;-qt-user-state:0;">> > hi<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> > i don't want to make this post long.
ijust started to use PostgreSQL<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> > and it is absolutely awesome . just want to say thank
youvery much<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
text-indent:0px;-qt-user-state:0;">> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> You're allowed to say more!!! :-)<p
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-qt-user-state:0;">><p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> What particular features do you like best, and why?<p
style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;">><p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> What O/S, hardware, use cases (what are you using pg for),
volumesof<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
text-indent:0px;-qt-user-state:0;">> data, performance...<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> <p style="
margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;">>What other Databases have you used?<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> <p style="
margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;">>How much experience do you have?<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px;
margin-right:0px;-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> <p style=" margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> <p
style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;">>Cheers,<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0;text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> Gavin<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; ">