Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:53, John Sidney-Woollett wrote: > Bit more info (from my own findings migrating from Oracle -> Postgres) > Jobs - NO, (but scheduled tasks can be implemented in other ways) There is a project on gborg (or maybe pgfoundry) called pgjobs which aims to create an oracle like t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-19 Thread Adam Ruth
Amen to that. I have to use Oracle at work, but I use PostgreSQL for all my side stuff. Man do I ever miss psql when I'm in SQL*Plus... On Aug 18, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: If you use it enough, I think it is inevitable that something, sometime, somewhere will really honk you o

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
If you use it enough, I think it is inevitable that something, sometime, somewhere will really honk you off about Oracle. With the feature bloat they're into these days, very likely it will be something you care nothing about that does it, too. On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Ben wrote: Is it just

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread Ben
Is it just me, or has there been a rash of "I'm thinking about postgres and coming from an oracle background" questions recently? Was there some writeup of postgres in a db rag in the last month or so? On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, John Sidney-Woollett wrote: > Bit more info (from my own findings migrat

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Bit more info (from my own findings migrating from Oracle -> Postgres) Sequences - YES Packages - NO (concept doesn't exist in PG) Functions - YES, Procedures - NO (also no INOUT or OUT parameters) Full-text - YES, tSearch2 Triggers - YES Jobs - NO, (but scheduled tasks can be implemented in other