Re: Perceived weaknesses of postgres

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Perceived weaknesses of postgres
Date: 2008-02-13 12:51:26
Message-ID: 47B2E7CE.1030007@wildenhain.de
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Csaba Nagy wrote:
> http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48339
>
> The interesting part is where somebody asks why NOT use postgres, and
> it's answers could give some additional hints to those interested on
> what people find missing from postgres to adopt it.
>
> Just to summarize some of the answers:
> * major PITA to upgrade between major versions;

I wonder which other databases (also commercial) can do that.

> * executing a single query on multiple cpus/cores;
> * no direct table cache control;
> * accent-insensitive text comparisons;

multiple collations would be nice...
just accent-insensitive would not make much sense imho.

> * fast select count(*);

SELECT count(*) WHERE False; is very fast for me ;)

Greets :-)
Tino

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