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From: gatrell@aragtap.den.mmc.com (Lance Gatrell (303) 977-2052)
Subject: Re: Other uses of postgres?
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This is heretical, but does accurately represent our experience with Postgres.
The advantages of Postgres are that its free and that it supports user-written
functions.  The disadvantages are that its buggy and there is no support 
(support provided by this mailgroup is spotty--many questions never 
get answered).

Our experience has been that every once in a while our database gets
thoroughly trashed and unusable.  Because it happens with some frequency,
we have created a C program to re-create the database and tables, and 
a shell script to load most of the data (the rest of the data has to
be re-created by executing our program).

I would not use Postgres in a delivered product.  Its great for research
and development products where the developers know how to re-create
their database and having to do so isn't a problem.  Its not appropriate
for critical applications

You make the decision on whether Postgres is for you or not.

Lance Gatrell
gatrell@mmc.den.com