Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Apr 2003 17:26 UTC
PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS (ORDBMS), derived from the Berkeley Postgres database management system. "PostgreSQL is one of the best-managed open source projects out there" a friend-in-the-know told me about 2 years ago, so today we feature a mini-interview with five members of the PostgreSQL team about their plans on the popular DB.
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This is crazy, the PostgreSQL ppl actually believe that their competition is commercial databases? When PostgreSQL's WAL work is done and stabilized, and they have an equivlant operational mode to Oracle's archivelog mode then they have taken the first step. This isn't exactly new stuff for Oracle, IIRC arcivelog was introduced in Oracle V6 ~ 1988. After you get rolling forward your database down (with the tools to parse your logs too, so you know when to stop rolling forward the db) you have to address hot backups. Let’s face it the commercial guys are doing incremental hot backups with tools that ship with the DB for years, and vanilla hot backups have been around for a decade now. This makes PostgreSQL a non-starter for anyone with any valuable data. Transactions are not enough; you also have to have a coherent backup and recovery strategy to ensure your data’s integrity.