[GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-22 Thread Jimbo1
Hello there, I'm a freelance Oracle Developer by trade (can almost hear the boos now ;o)), and am looking into developing my own Snowboarding-related website over the next few years. Anyway, I'm making some decisions now about the site architecture, and the database I'm going to need is obviously

Re: [GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-23 Thread Jimbo1
>As I'm sure you've asked the same question of the MySQL folks, can you tell >us what they've said about "us"? I guess it's not just idle curiosity (90% >though), but it might give us some pointers about how to improve either our >marketing, implementation or both. Not yet asked them, but will pop

[GENERAL] Java Triggers

2006-06-02 Thread Jimbo1
Hi there, I'm a very competent Oracle developer, but have never used Postgres. There's currently a project taking place where I'm working that is developing on an Oracle database, but could potentially be migrated to an open source database in the future; possibly Postgres. There are two question