Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A916326A2 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:02:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77814-05 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:02:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from moon.antora.ru (moon.antora.ru [89.111.189.180]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E69D63218F for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:02:15 -0300 (ADT) Envelope-to: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Received: from moon.inner.space ([10.1.1.5] helo=moon.antora.ru) by moon.antora.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1OOklQ-0006z6-R5 for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:02:12 +0400 Received: from [192.168.1.6] [94.233.240.234] by moon.antora.ru (Axigen) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 0C278B; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:02:12 +0400 Message-ID: <4C185AD3.8050701@bankir.ru> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:02:11 +0400 From: silly sad User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: oracle to postgres migration question References: <201006152245.o5FMj4t10356@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: <201006152245.o5FMj4t10356@momjian.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.8 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201006/57 X-Sequence-Number: 34248 On 06/16/10 02:45, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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. count me in :-) i even suspect this exactly is a Secret of the oracle Power. "higher performance through lower level of control"