On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:43:32PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
> But is it safe to say that in some ways -- and for most things that one
> would be likely to do while learning at home, perhaps *all* ways -- Oracle
> and PostgreSQL can be treated as if they are interchangeable?

Depends what you want to learn.  If you want to learn how to write code that
uses an RDBMS backend - then yeah, you'll be able to get away with using pg.

> Put another way, Oracle skills may be more marketable, but paying for the
> right licenses & hardware to learn Oracle may be unfeasible for most.

They used to do a free hobbyist/evaluation licence.  Probably still do.

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