Re: Comparisons - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From José de Paula
Subject Re: Comparisons
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Msg-id 359m3rF4k43brU1@individual.net
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In response to Re: Comparisons  (Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Comparisons  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: Comparisons  (Chris Travers <chris@travelamericas.com>)
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Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:02:58 +0100, Francois Suter <dba@paragraf.ch> wrote:
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>I forgot something in my previous post. At the end of the article, the
>>journalist mentions two comparisons:
>>
>>http://support.summersault.com/why_postgresql.html
>>http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html
>>
>>Are they any good?
>
>
> The first one is a nice document from a PR and advocacy perspective
> (but could use some updating); and the second is a year out-of-date
> and (to me at least) appears biased - not good at all.
>
> -- Mitch
>
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I liked the table at summersault wrt features of the several databases;
does anyone know about a similar chart comparign PostgreSQL's and
Oracle's SQL language syntax? I'm thinking about migrating a system from
Oracle to PostgreSQL, and I would like to know how painless this could
be done.

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