Hi Bill My experience is that it isn't a good idea to do experimental development on a tricky DB. It is too easy to bite off more than you can chew.
You will save heaps of time by prototyping your app on Sqlite first. Only when your data schema becomes more stable should you move over to your DB. In this way you can more easily differentiate between your own coding errors and any DB adaptor errors etc and this will make it quicker to learn too. Just 2 cts, D --