RE: [GENERAL] Re: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission criticalapplications?

It would be helpful to me to hear about successful and stable
implementations as well.  If some of you who are using PostgreSQL
successfully could comment on your experiences, I think it would shed some
worthwhile light on it's capabilities.  I'm considering using it for a
mission critical project, and I would like to know what I am getting into.
Thank you.

David Barnes

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
[mailto:owner-pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org]On Behalf Of Ed Loehr
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 11:23 AM
To: Jochen Topf
Cc: pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission
criticalapplications?


> > My question of an earlier posting is still not answered. Does anybody
> here,
> > who reported PostgreSQL to be very stable, use advanced features like
> pl/pgsql
> > procedures, triggers, rules and notifies? Lets have a show of hands. I
> would
> > really like to know, why I am the only one having problems. :-) Although
> > it might be, because, as this is a PostgreSQL mailing list, most of the
> > readers are people who are happy with PostgreSQL, because all the others
> > have left and are on an Oracle list now. :-)

I use triggers, PL/pgSQL procedures/functions, and rules on 6.5.2, and I
have
experienced a number of what might be called instability problems for
whatever
reason.  A review of the posts to the pgsql mailing lists will confirm that
you
are not alone in finding some points of instability.  But the extent of any
instability is not clear.  Watch for a web poll announcement in January to
get
a better handle on that data...

Cheers,
Ed Loehr


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