Re: Stability, PR

I love the "non technical techies", i know one who spent three days writing
a program to time the "connect time", "retrieve time" and "delete time" on
an access datafile and a postgres server. He did this to prove to me that
"access would be quicker *sigh*. Needless to say, when we got down to
select *'s and working with recordsets, PG came out on top.

anywho, i did an impromptu survey not long ago on who's using Postgresql,
it i posted the responses to the group, it should be in the archives. Not
once did i see any references to data integrity.

BTW, thanks to everyone for their reponses again. We're going full steam
ahead on migrating the Access app to Postgres. It saved our company at
least 60k USD not going to MS-SQL.
~corey
"Why Postgres? Why not?"

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Wolfe [SMTP:steve(at)iboats(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:24 PM
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Stability, PR

> Over the last 4-6 weeks, however, several potential clients
> questioning my choice of PostgreSQL, saying that it has a reputation
> for instability. These comments didn't come from people who are
> against using open-source software; my choice of Linux, Apache,
> mod_perl, Zope, or OpenACS (depending on the project) was generally
> applauded.

From what I've read, I've inferred that long, long ago, very early
versions of PG weren't all that great - but I have no personal experience
with them, so I can neither confirm nor deny that. What I CAN tell you,
though, is this:

The amount of idiotic statements that I've heard about PostgreSQL is
amazing. Nearly all of it has come from "non-technical techies". You
know, the people who sell computers, deal with computer-related
investments, manage technically-competant people, but aren't actually
capable of doing anything useful with a computer themselves.

I've had to deal with a (seemingly) innumerable host of these kinds of
people. For some, a simple review of the performance, scalability, and
rock-solid reliability of our PG servers is enough. For others, it's not,
and they really seem bent on the idea of us using something different. My
response to them is "Sure, we'll do it. And you'll only have to fork over
a few hundred thousand dollars, maybe half a million, to cover the
licensing fees and hardware upgrades to get us to the level we're at right
now." Somehow, that seems to help them understand a little more
clearly...

steve

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