The People of Postgres: Tom Lane

Re:The People of Postgres: Tom Lane by lennel on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:20AM (#5755693)

with the wave of other db's (schema and non schema based) that have swept through the industry over the last 10 years, I feel like a small town pastor in my tendency for conservatism and my deeply ingrained faith in postgres.

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Re:The People of Postgres: Tom Lane by hga on Thursday May 23, 2013 @12:23PM (#5757695)

Continuing the religious theme, having been raised in a Pentecostal area (SW Missouri), one of the things I like about PostgreSQL is that I haven't felt the desire to lay my hands upon any of my servers and intone, "Lord, HEAL this database. SHOWER your MERCY upon...."

It's comparable to the quality I've enjoyed with Oracle and DB2 on Solaris and Windows in the bad old days, and has all the features I need to declaratively enforce consistency, correctness and referential integrity.

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Re:The People of Postgres: Tom Lane by gdulli on Thursday May 23, 2013 @11:18AM (#5757285)

I'm more into the proselytization. I'm at my third company that I've migrated from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

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