Re: [SQL] Rollback in Postgres

2008-07-14 Thread Lewis Cunningham
--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Kaare Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But yes, it has to be enabled, and yes it has to have a > performance cost > somehow, but people are requesting it, and somehow I AFAIK, It is built from undo so there is no ADDITIONAL overhead. It just saves the undo that is cr

Re: [SQL] Rollback in Postgres

2008-07-12 Thread Lewis Cunningham
--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I would appreciate as regards Oracle's flashback > technology would > have been a link to a well written review showing the warts > as well as > the beauty. I've found that Oracle stuff sounds good > on paper, and > turns into a

Re: [SQL] Rollback in Postgres

2008-07-12 Thread Lewis Cunningham
> > Please don't put links to copyrighted material on our > lists. > Postgres docs are copyrighted. The oracle docs are free to access just like the postgres docs. What is the issue? LewisC -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [SQL] Rollback in Postgres

2008-07-11 Thread Lewis Cunningham
In addition to allowing you to read old data, Flashback will allow you to rollback to a point in time, including returning a single table to a specific state. Flashback database is like PITR without the log files. It started in 9i and improved dramatically in 10g. 11g has made additional im

Re: [SQL] Tunning PostgreSQL performance for views on Windows

2007-07-30 Thread Lewis Cunningham
How big are the underlying tables? If they are large, are you partitioning? Since the values only change daily, if the end result is a reasonable size, have you considered using a CTAS rather than views? LewisC --- Ranieri Mazili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm developing a BI and

Re: [SQL][GENERAL] Any documatation about porting from Oracle to PostgreSQL

2006-10-17 Thread Lewis Cunningham
Felix, You might want to look at EnterpriseDB, which is PostgreSQL with Oracle compatibility extensions. www.enterprisedb.com LewisC --- Felix Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a newbie of PostgreSQL. I'm searching materials about porting > from > Oracle to PostgreSQL. > Any