Oh well... then, THANKS GUYS!!! I'm not the original poster, btw.
I felt a bit 'abandoned' a while back, since I started using Interbase/Firebird since, like, ~2000. But since Firebird never really took off, I felt I had to look for better solutions. I worked with Oracle for a bit, and then MySQL. But I found Oracle to be expensive (obviously) and too intrusive into my OS (Linux, many flavours, but mostly RedHat-based). What I really liked about Firebird, and then Postgres made me feel right at home, was standards-compliance with SQL and great feature set. I find myself most-often-than-not guessing how something ought to work in Postgres, based on past experiences, and finding that it works exactly (mostly) like it 'should'. Plus, I found many new things that I loved and changed the way I think about stuff, like using Python for SP, JSON fields and RegEx in WHERE. And a special mention to the Async NOTIFY stuff which finally works like it 'should' in a DB (Firebird had something like that, but with no payload). Also, how postgres is easy to deploy really helps. For example, I use it with a Qt App, which is compiled in MinGW. So I recompiled libpq with the same compiler, thus avoiding extra DLLs. Thanks! On Thursday 14 May 2015 09:48:35 Gavin Flower wrote: > On 14/05/15 09:35, essam Gndelee essam wrote: > > hi > > i don't want to make this post long. i just started to use PostgreSQL > > and it is absolutely awesome . just want to say thank you very much > > You're allowed to say more!!! :-) > > What particular features do you like best, and why? > > What O/S, hardware, use cases (what are you using pg for), volumes of > data, performance... > > What other Databases have you used? > > How much experience do you have? > > > Cheers, > Gavin
