From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Artacus <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: A couple of newbie questions ... |
Date: | 2008-07-24 04:45:27 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10807232145n1fd9e0b3m38fefd7eb2785af5@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Artacus <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:
>> This is one of the many SQL bad habits you've likely picked up from
>> using MySQL. I'd highly suggest reading the pgsql users manual cover
>> to cover, you'll pick up a lot of good info on how to drive
>> postgresql. Other things that work in mysql but fail in pgsql include
>> inserting things that are out of range.
>
> You know, I bet as many of us came to PostgreSQL from a MySQL background as
> from Oracle. It might be good to have a section in the manual for how to
> transition from using the "tricks" in MySQL to a strict environment like
> Postgres.
And one for Oracle as well. I've seen a few people show up wondering
how postgresql handles running out of rollback space... ahem.
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