Re: i feel like compelled !

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Gianni <nasus(dot)maximos(at)gmail(dot)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.

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