If you use it enough, I think it is inevitable that something, sometime, somewhere will really honk you
off about Oracle. With the feature bloat they're into these days, very likely it will be something
you care nothing about that does it, too.
On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Ben wrote:
Is it just me, or has there been a rash of "I'm thinking about postgres
and coming from an oracle background" questions recently? Was there some
writeup of postgres in a db rag in the last month or so?
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
Bit more info (from my own findings migrating from Oracle -> Postgres)
Sequences - YES Packages - NO (concept doesn't exist in PG) Functions - YES, Procedures - NO (also no INOUT or OUT parameters) Full-text - YES, tSearch2 Triggers - YES Jobs - NO, (but scheduled tasks can be implemented in other ways) Synonyms - NO (can be frigged using search_paths and schemas) Replication - more than one option depending on requirement
You will miss certain Oracle features, but once you get into the swing of postgres you'll not look back. Also consider how much money you'll save in license fees!
John Sidney-Woollett
Gaetano Mendola wrote:
Laimis K wrote:
Hi, I'm oracle man.
So, how about features in postgesql which exists in oracle db (order is
casual) ?
1. Sequences
2. Packages
3. Functions/procedures
4. Full-text
5. Triggers
6. Jobs
7. Synonyms
8. Replication
1) Serial, but I don't know the Oracle one... 2) Schema ? 3) Yes, functions 4) tsearch2 5) Yes 6) ?? 7) ?? 8) A couple of solutions
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/index.html
Regards Gaetano Mendola
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