From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Organization: Dynacom Tankers Mgmt
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Insane behaviour in 8.3.3
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:06:58 +0300
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On =CE=A0=CE=B1=CF=81 15 =CE=99=CE=BF=CF=85=CE=BD 2012 12:29:38 Samuel Gend=
ler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Samuel Gendler
>=20
> <sgendler@ideasculptor.com>wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Achilleas Mantzios <
> >=20
> > achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> >> And i forgot to mention, minicom term emulation quality sucks, even
> >> giving simple
> >> shell commands is a PITA, upgrading the whole fleet would mean bast ca=
se
> >> scenario
> >> minimum 21K USD for the whole fleet + suspension of all other activiti=
es
> >> for two months.
> >> If physical travel was involved, the cost would be increased at even
> >> higher levels.
> >=20
> > And what is the cost of data corruption on large numbers of systems?  A=
nd
> > how much to fix that, especially if multiple systems fail at the same
> > time?
> >=20
> >  Some things aren't free. $21K in exchange for NOT having had to keep
> >=20
> > systems up to date for 4 years seems like a decent trade.
>=20
> Just call up an oracle sales rep and get a price quote for a single
> baseline system.  Put that next to the postgresql upgrade cost for your
> whole fleet.

:) I know, I have used this argument sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
The problem with oracle is not the price. The problem is that it just canno=
t do
what postgresql does, or what we have managed to do ourselves with postgres=
ql.
Our replication system is unique, built in-house, and no commercial alterna=
tive existed,
exists, or (most probably) will exist.

=2D
Achilleas Mantzios
IT DEPT