PFC wrote:
>
>> 2. Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have a "lot" to fear in the sense of a
>> database like PostgreSQL. We can compete in 90-95% of cases where
>> people would traditionally purchase a proprietary system for many,
>> many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars.
>
> Oracle also fears benchmarks made by people who don't know how to
> tune Oracle properly...
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> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> match
>
Then Oracle fears its users, which explains the "no-benchmark" policy,
which I cannot see any PR honk being able to spin that in any way that
doesn't make Oracle look like it's hiding its head in the sand.
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