Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

On 02/06/2020 09:22, Ron wrote:
The inability to do a point-in-time restoration of a single database in a multi-db cluster is a serious -- and fundamental -- missing feature (never to be implemented because of the fundamental design).

In SQL Server, it's trivial to restore -- including differentials and WAL files -- an old copy of a prod database to a different name so that you now have databases FOO and FOO_OLD in the same instance.

In Postgres, though, you've got to create a new cluster using a new port number (which in our case means sending a firewall request through channels and waiting two weeks while the RISK team approves opening the port -- and they might decline it because it's non-standard -- and then the Network team creates a change order and then implements it).

Bottom line: something I can do in an afternoon with SQL Server takes two weeks for Postgres.

This has given Postgres a big, fat black eye with our end users.

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Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

But that's nothing to do with Postgres; it takes two weeks because you have broken procedures imho

Tim Clarke

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