Jeff Trout wrote:
> iirc, didn't some big us govt group move to PG from Informix? I
> think Bruce mentioned something once about that..
US National Weather Service changed 170 weather sites from Informix to
Postgres. Postgres worked well for them.
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Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In answering the question, it might help to have information on two background
items.
The first item is the politics of the situation. I gather from Chad Hendren's
post that an individual in the top-8-OEM-customer enterprise is advocating
for Postgresql.
The second item is the existing tech
On Nov 28, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Jeff Larsen wrote:
I can't offer much in the way of a case study, but I am an Informix
customer that has been doing an informal feasibility study on
switching to PostgreSQL. I've learned a ton from the high quality PG
docs and from the PG mailing lists.
I switched a
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:11:07PM -0700, Gregory Williamson wrote:
> * There is no equivalent of a "synonym"; a view can be used to fake this
> sometimes
> but where Informix lets you create a synonym to a table in another
> database /
> instance, PostgreSQL doesn't. dblink can be use
Chad --
<...>
>
> Have you seen any studies (either by Sun or others) that compares
> PostgresSQL to other commercial database software (Informix, Oracle,
> Sybase,etc.)? I am interested seeing a feature by feature comparison of
> PostgresSQL and Informix.
>
Hope this ain't too late!
I can'
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On 11/28/07 17:11, Jeff Larsen wrote:
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> Lastly on the Informix side, they have more advanced online
> backup/restore tools. It's similar to PG PITR backup but does not
> depend on file-system level backup tools. The option I use (called
> ont
On Nov 28, 2007 9:32 AM, Chad Hendren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide) that is
> considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their primary product
> instead of Informix. He is trying to build his case for this change.
> Do we have
On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Chad Hendren wrote:
PostgreSQL Team,
I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide)
that is considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their
primary product instead of Informix. He is trying to build his
case for this change. Do we h
Hi Merlin, Chad,
Merlin Moncure schrieb:
> there was a very excellent case study, written by cc'd person, that is
> unhappily not available at the moment. see:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2005-08/msg00147.php
Thank you :-) The link in the post is not up to date.
The linked c
On Nov 28, 2007 10:32 AM, Chad Hendren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PostgreSQL Team,
>
> I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide) that is
> considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their primary product
> instead of Informix. He is trying to build his case for this
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> PostgreSQL Team,
>
> I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide) that is
> considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their pri
PostgreSQL Team,
I have a large OEM customer (one of the top 8 for Sun worldwide) that is
considering embedding PostgreSQL into the core of their primary product
instead of Informix. He is trying to build his case for this change.
Do we have anything that I can forward to him (something like
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