Comments on: LCA2007: Any Postgresql guys around?

By: James William Dumay

James William Dumay — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:24:42 +0000

Yeah, but MySQL has no support whatever for TSQL storedprocs.

Apparently Postgres has at least some support.

By: Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:55:04 +0000

Give MySQL a go - lots of features, speed, reliability and flexibility. also migration toolkit for helping with migrations from other RDBMS.

(wow, that sounded a bit marketing didn’t it - sorry).

By: Leon Brooks

Leon Brooks — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:18:25 +0000

If it goes ahead, it will be here. Not so easy to get to, but eye-poppingly pretty & peaceful. Bring your surfboard & camera for any “Hello Jim” occasion. (-:

By: James Dumay

James Dumay — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:46:05 +0000

Hey Leon, if your moving this way it would be awesome to finally meet and have a chat!

Might drop you an email tomorrow and we can discuss.

Cheers!

By: Gavin Sherry

Gavin Sherry — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:32:38 +0000

Hey. I’m the guy who ran the PostgreSQL miniconf. I wont be at the conference on Friday but if you’re around town we could meet up and have a chat.

By: Leon Brooks

Leon Brooks — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:10:50 +0000

…also, this is not exactly local, but I’m looking at living over in Forster (a tad north of Newcastle) later this year, which will make communicating easier if you have tools or techniques you’d like toyed with in earnest.

By: Leon Brooks

Leon Brooks — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:08:29 +0000

I’m not a honkin’ great DB guru or anything, I just use PostgreSQL for a couple of interal things, and have put Postgres up against MS-SQL a couple of times for *others* to develop against. Most of the trouble they had was political.

PostgreSQL tries to be a little Oracle, and MS-SQL tries to be a little Oracle, so between them they’re a lot closer in many ways than is at first obvious.

One thing which helps *some* people (depends on presonality & application) is to distance themselves via the interface, working through ODBC or whatever initially, and only connecting directly when the fluff has been blown aside.

By: puck

puck — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:14:11 +0000

Hey,

While we aren’t PostgreSQL guys, we do lots of projects that use PostgreSQL. Swing by the Catalyst stand this afternoon for a chat if you have time.