Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 05:06:37PM -0500, Ron wrote:
> On 6/13/20 1:46 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 08:53:45PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> > > I agree these are all technical issues, but nevertheless - "implementation
> > > details", which DBAs don't care about. What's important from a DBA's
> > > perspective is not whether WAL is cluster-wide or database-wide, but whether
> > > it's possible to manage backups/PITR/restores of individual databases in a more
> > > convenient matter, which other RDBMS-vendors seem to provide.
> > > I love PG, have been using it professionally since 6.5, and our company depends
> > > on it, but there are things other RDBMS-vendors do better...
> > The bigger issue is that while we _could_ do this, it would add more
> > problems and complexity, and ultimately, I think would make the
> > software less usable overall and would be a net-negative. We know of no
> > way to do it without a ton of negatives.
>
> How do other RDBMSs do it with ease?  (I know it's an architectural issue,
> but what's the architectural issue?)

I don't know.

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