Q: One of my primary vendors switched from Advantage Database (BARF) to postgresql database.
what do you know? it is a very complete database? can do site to site replication? can is a bandwidth hog?
will PostGresSql Apps connect to the database via a wireless ok? (With advantage, my app would not go to the database through a wireless connection, it was up to 100 MB / s bandwidth) 0.
just curious, I am unable to get my hands on a beta copy of this app for a couple of m months.
i still excited. everything goes better than Advantage, and what Ive read so far sounds good on PostgreSQL.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Just make sure you give yourself LOTS of time to experiment with installation and configuration.
Dave
i googled some gui utilities you can buy to configure PostgreSQL, any of them worth buying into until i get comfortable with it?
Re:Just make sure you give yourself LOTS of time to experiment with installation and configuration.
Dave
Re:so basically, no one has anything bad to say about it. sounds wonderful. the vendor chose a great product. very nice.
makes my job (implementing solutions) for various types of offices much easier. i was tired of having to resort to terminal services / citrix for all forms of remote access. don't get me wrong there are situations where terminal services/citrix is the perfect solution but there are many more situations where i'd rather have a vpn solution with a server to server replication model.
very very exciting.
Re:PostgreSQL is a wonderful database, on par with oracle, ms sql, etc. We use oracle and mysql (for small web projects) here at work, but given the choice, I would use PostgreSQL. Its free, open-source, and efficent. I havn't found anything that I can do in oracle, that I can't do in PostgreSQL. Its a very serious large scale database solution.
Re:PostgreSQL is an excellent database. Version 8.0 just added Point In Time recovery and Savepoints.
linky (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/)
Dave
Re:I know it's spelled PostgreSQL, that's about it.
Re:There are ODBC drives for PostgreSQL, to find out the bandwidth requirements you'll probably just have to play around and see.
Overall PostgreSQL is a much more complete database solution than MySQL, but it's more complicated to setup.
Re:Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel.
Re:I'm a mySQL fanboy and from what I've heard/read, PostgreSQL is way better than mySQL. However, that doesnt stop me from using mySQL due to its simplicity. It has some features that are lacking in mySQL, but I think mySQL may have caught up by now. Anyways, if some large corporations are using mySQL, I'm sure PostgreSQL is just as good, if not better.
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