Re: Has anyone heard of dev01 and their switch from PG to SQL-Server?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: vinny <vinny(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org>, Joshua Kramer <joskra42(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Has anyone heard of dev01 and their switch from PG to SQL-Server?
Date: 2017-07-20 07:18:53
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQuhgTBkkK++EpJ=kkE5jS2q+dLojnD_m=bLcPQLeKrXA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 8:53 AM, vinny <vinny(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
> It sounds more like a microsoft project to prove SQL-Server can be used on
> linux in production,
> than an actual case study. Especially the bit about "an immense reduction in
> database maintenance requirements".
> SQL-Server requiring less maintenance than PostgreSQL? What where they
> doing?
>
> Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how their new setup holds out, maybe we
> can learn something from it.

Without any actual numbers, facts and numbers, it is hard to make an
opinion about something. Especially, there is no way to know if
something wrong has been done with Postgres just by looking at this
post, particularly if there have been misconfigurations. So based only
on this information provided here this is just magic powder in the
eyes.
--
Michael

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