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
Hi Chad
I had a devil of a time finding any usable doc on Informix
whereas Postgres/MySQL and Oracle all had documentation aplenty
Im still looking for a whitepaper or any benchmarks
http://www.iiug.org/forums/ids/index.cgi/noframes/read/3517
Anyone?
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