On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Gianni <nasus.maxi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh well... then, THANKS GUYS!!! > > I'm not the original poster, btw. > > I felt a bit 'abandoned' a while back, since I started using > Interbase/Firebird since, like, ~2000. But since Firebird never really took > off, I felt I had to look for better solutions. I worked with Oracle for a > bit, and then MySQL. But I found Oracle to be expensive (obviously) and too > intrusive into my OS (Linux, many flavours, but mostly RedHat-based). > > What I really liked about Firebird, and then Postgres made me feel right at > home, was standards-compliance with SQL and great feature set. I find myself > most-often-than-not guessing how something ought to work in Postgres, based > on past experiences, and finding that it works exactly (mostly) like it > 'should'. Plus, I found many new things that I loved and changed the way I > think about stuff, like using Python for SP, JSON fields and RegEx in WHERE. > And a special mention to the Async NOTIFY stuff which finally works like it > 'should' in a DB (Firebird had something like that, but with no payload). > > Also, how postgres is easy to deploy really helps. For example, I use it > with a Qt App, which is compiled in MinGW. So I recompiled libpq with the > same compiler, thus avoiding extra DLLs.
Thanks for the kind words ... and for your thoughts on why you like PostgreSQL. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
