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. -- David Cantrell | Member of the Brute Squad | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Us Germans take our humour very seriously -- German cultural attache talking to the Today Programme, about the German supposed lack of a sense of humour, 29 Aug 2001
