Re: PG vs. Oracle for larger databases

From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve(at)iboats(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG vs. Oracle for larger databases
Date: 2000-07-28 22:30:40
Message-ID: 003c01bff8e3$7dd46780$85755ad1@iboats.com
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> How suitable is PG for doing larger databases? The need I am
> considering would be a financial database that does maybe up to 100k
> transactions/day.

In a day? I think a lot of us do that much in an hour....

> Obviously, it needs to be very reliable, and have
> minimal scheduled, and no unscheduled downtime. Should this project
> be on Oracle or Postgres?

The only "unscheduled" downtime we've had with postgreSQL was when one of
our programmers ran the disk out of space, which will give any database
server fits. ; )

steve

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