Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
Cc: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment
Date: 2020-06-13 18:46:12
Message-ID: 20200613184612.GE20552@momjian.us
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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.

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