Re: Trade Study on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

2010/9/25 Uwe Schroeder <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com>:
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>> On 25/09/2010 4:55 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
>> > On Friday 24. September 2010 20.04.26 Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
>> >> Then again, does Tom ever sleep? Maybe he sleeps in the afternoon? Or
>> >> is that when he does intensive coding?
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>> > Once there was a suggestion on this list to give Tom every other week off
>> > to level the competition with the other RDBMSes.
>> >
>> > That being said, the PostgreSQL mail lists is an excellent and totally
>> > free support channel. Speaking for myself, I've never needed any support
>> > outside the mail lists. And Tom is of course a great big part of that.
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>> I couldn't agree more. I really appreciate the time and effort people
>> here have spent helping out. Again, Tom Lane particularly so, for
>> amazing patience, psychic debugging skills, and endless willingness to
>> help anybody and everybody.
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> Don't omit other major contributors like Joshua or Scott... (and others I
> didn't mention by name).
> Certainly Tom doesn't seem to need sleep, but there's quite a few more people
> willing and able to contribute and answer questions. Helped me out on more
> than one occasion and I've been using postgresql long before it was named
> postgresql (even back in the days when the linux kernel had a 0.9 version
> number). Sure many of the current contributers weren't around back then, but
> they picked up where others left off and made postgresql what it is today: a
> quite viable alternative to commercial "pay lots of dollars" databases. Suffice
> it to say, I have yet to see a showstopper (provided that you run postgresql
> on decent hardware).
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> Since they just opened a beer tasting room around the corner of my home,
> here's to all the active contributors - cheers. (and if any of the core
> developers/contributors ever come to Santa Rosa, CA - drop me a note and I'll
> have you over for a beer or wine and a nice BBQ)
>

nice to know it :)

Regards

Pavel Stehule

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