Re: [HACKERS] i feel like compelled !
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Gianni nasus.maxi...@gmail.com wrote: 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 for the kind words ... and for your thoughts on why you like PostgreSQL. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] i feel like compelled !
On 5/13/15 6:05 PM, Gianni wrote: 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). FWIW, numerous people made similar comments about Postgres at this month's AustinPUG meeting when someone mentioned they haven't used it yet. Basically, they said he'd love using it. :) -- Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
[HACKERS] i feel like compelled !
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
Re: [HACKERS] i feel like compelled !
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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] i feel like compelled !
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
