Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-04-05 Thread Reimer
Sorry, maybe I was not clear. No, it´s not Peoplesoft ERP, it´s a small brazilien ERP software house. - Original Message - From: "Bruno Wolff III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Reimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mark Aufflick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:28 PM Sub

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-04-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 22:18:20 -0300, Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The main reason of my question is that we have a ERP software house client > with many customers running PostgreSQL and one of their big customers is > trying go buy another ERP system that uses Sybase instead of Pos

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-03-31 Thread Reimer
change to the Sybase ERP system, comparing only the database features. Many thanks! Reimer - Original Message - From: "Mark Aufflick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Reimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [GENERA

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-03-31 Thread Ian Harding
> A commonly overlooked comparison for "always on" systems is to compare > what sorts of operations you can do to databases without needing to > restart the server or drop tables, lock out users etc. > We use Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 8 here and the thing that annoys me about it is exactly t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-03-30 Thread Mark Aufflick
I'm not aware of one, but I would also be very interested. Certainly Postgres is much more standards compliant. In terms of developer features, Postgres is also much more advanced. Sybase also has some unusual limitations in wierd areas like the maximum number of bytes of index per row. Sybase wo

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL x Sybase

2006-03-29 Thread Reimer
Hi,   Does anyone know of any recent comparisons of postgres vs Sybase?   Thanks in advance!   Reimer