From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Juan Alvarez Ferrando <juan(at)suzuki(dot)es> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | RE: [GENERAL] info on people running postgre |
Date: | 1999-03-26 03:37:06 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9903252336360.389-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Juan Alvarez Ferrando wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have tryed PostgreSQL as the backend of a Java application used to
> collect orders and other information. Everything would have been fine but
> for the lack of row-level locking, and some problems with processes that go
> hanged when locked for to long. Also we have experienced a couple of
> corruptions on a table that suffers the deletion and insertion of 46000
> records every day, and some sporadic and misterious backend crashes.
>
> Table-locking has forced us to quit from PostgreSQL and move to Oracle. So
> if you need a read-only (or single user) database with moderate performance
> (any comercial one is faster), PostgreSQL will probably give you what you
> need in this other aspects: good SQL, ease of use and administration, really
> thin JDBC type 4 driver; and you may find to need more of:
>
> Export/import tools
pg_dump and psql
> Backend stability
would love to see more information on this ..
> Crash recovery
> Programming interfaces doc.
huh?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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