From: | Susanne Ebrecht <miracee(at)miracee(dot)de> |
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To: | Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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Subject: | ***SPAM*** Re: systems 2007 ... |
Date: | 2007-10-20 20:47:35 |
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Hi Hans,
many thanks for your feedback.
I'll hope, that you enjoyed the system.
Also many thanks, that you make a booth at this event.
Kind Regards,
Susanne
Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
> good morning everybody,
>
> my friend zoltan böszörmenyi (this is the guy who posted the GENERATED
> BY) and i spent 4 days at systems (one of the largest IT exhibitions
> in Europe).
> it was quite successful and many people came to ask about PostgreSQL.
> i would see three types of people this time:
> - "what is the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL?"
> - "we use PostgreSQL; we are so happy; keep doing "
> - "we use Oracle, is PostgreSQL as powerful as Oracle?"
>
> to answer the first type of question the best strategies were: "what
> would happen if you lost all your data?". in most cases this made
> people think about system reliability and so on - avoiding data loss
> is a killer argument.
> a second argument is MySQL's fetish to implement new storage engines:
> "would you trust somebody who comes around every two years and telling
> you that the previous way of storing data was no good under some
> circumstances? personally i would prefer people who do their job once
> but properly" (this is a killer argument *evil grin*). people were
> most responsive to those arguments.
>
> on the feature side PITR was the most interesting one. people seem to
> use it for failover (99% i would say).
> partitioning was also a killer feature.
>
> some people mentioned that VACUUM is an issue for them. the existence
> of VACUUM seems to be a reason why people did not consider looking at
> PostgreSQL more extensively.
>
> we printed and spread around 700 flyers this time and i guess we
> convinced many people to use PostgreSQL.
> i will load up some photos shortly.
>
> cheers,
>
> hans
>
>
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Susanne Ebrecht,
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