Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12C0633B44 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:45:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08070-09 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:45:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDCE633A00 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:45:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id o5FMj4t10356; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:45:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201006152245.o5FMj4t10356@momjian.us> Subject: Re: oracle to postgres migration question In-Reply-To: To: Scott Marlowe Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:45:04 -0400 (EDT) CC: Stephen Frost , Joshua Gooding , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.011 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_40=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201006/56 X-Sequence-Number: 34247 Scott Marlowe wrote: > Note that psql automagically right justifies numerics and dynamically > sizes all columns so you don't have to do as much of this stuff. > Oracle always made me feel like I was operating the machine behind the > curtain in the Wizard of Oz, lots of handles and switches and knobs I > had to mess with to get useful output. Yeah, I have heard that description many times in other forms. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. +