Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
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>> 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. There is a *lot* to learn about a system before one can
> truly "know" it.
It would be a really great service to this community if you would
capture those issues and publish documentation (but feel free to change
or omit the names to protect the incompetent^w innocent!).
