Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f5JyV-0004o4-AP for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:43:55 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f5JyT-0000fw-H6 for pgsql-general@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:43:53 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f5JyT-0000fm-5x for pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:43:53 +0000 Received: from tamriel.snowman.net ([96.255.250.162]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f5JyN-0006mL-0C for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:43:52 +0000 Received: by tamriel.snowman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4D25C5F79C; Sun, 8 Apr 2018 19:43:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 19:43:46 -0400 From: Stephen Frost To: Ravi Krishna Cc: g@luxsci.net, pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Rationale for aversion to the central database? Message-ID: <20180408234346.GG27724@tamriel.snowman.net> References: <201804082237.w38Mb050004963@rs111.luxsci.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="e7MbhXUj+2isZwqc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk --e7MbhXUj+2isZwqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, * Ravi Krishna (sravikrishna3@gmail.com) wrote: > >> I am however very comfortable with using psql and PL/pgSQL and I am ve= ry > >opinionated. > > > Nothing wrong with this approach and it may very well work 90% of the tim= e. > Until ... a day comes when > you need to migrate out of PG to another RDBMS. Good luck at that time. Oh, don't worry, people do that. What I particularly enjoy are the stories (of which there are a number now...) where people moved away =66rom PG for some reason or another, then to another database, to another, and another, and finally back to PG again, much the wiser for it but also rather battle-worn. :) Thanks! Stephen --e7MbhXUj+2isZwqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJayqkxAAoJEO1sijiDR2RV5gYP/3/wPpAtbem+P+ogJ5F2miVA JzVs1QhFcD+GsuGpJNwDL0VTsht4aOVHoDxLQkBuEGxp10VeidnHS4nzbr7cAGMf VRWmooUyqu2w7I/3meabxcjfGIWZUi/K3wRRuBSx8g5J0jxgk58LatTC+fzWXFK1 AJ6zy+Hcbgva3XbTaxJWPjbgBzmjCUIlHh3nzmsQrtM4EqqYxxtBQHSclyTFcb+q TnET6OluFzwu7Ip1Y2dHMOkkwrl02Lw1QCLLdq2eks6hoBKEJTbfXPXv3vAndmMD SY8ZDPT/6cNGm04AgauFj3aKgEb8EodqDDfQNpD0Kp5rNLLzmbVN+BxfKgKez+KF bzN5ZD3Cwi419X6nVUcgPxz08SyNA4+Ekj9jA/3l99asrmxosKbL0WonUfBhIyrd ppua2nH1PPwCB47B5/8ytj7yMJ2uXNf8rTuFgr46J7Vbrj7DXfAaYmamWD+n+Ibo ieXuUx6YPAofJT38Nz6JNzxt+vhJ24jc7RN+AYhEpXt7FmShxG+A9fZLvzzuGX/H a/xY6Qow8uvGk2+FxUe/jvTlNq8LarRrYZFh8ZgeUmu+lKPejn1HhTfe12myewrl 0TQbrBUyDmMyYsKKmjko+sLMrlMsPuwnRnshY01E7DDoM+Bg3XZOXZmUnGYZIR/M ftIKtY5RB6HTfW4gjORv =g2fO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --e7MbhXUj+2isZwqc--