Submitted by Michael (not verified) on Sat, 2008-09-06 16:18.
I'm not a db admin, but I run a company that uses postgres so I can comment from a business perspective. My team has spent several weeks trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3. Basically, my view is that Postgres shipped the equivalent of a Microsoft Vista. Microsoft can go on and on about what a big improvement Vista is to XP, but the fact is, it's too damn hard to migrate and too many things that were broken by the "upgrade." I really don't care that it's faster or that it has lots of cool new features. If I want faster, it's a lot cheaper to buy faster hardware. If you break our web app in 500 places that have to be manually fixed, you've shipped a three week hassle, not an upgrade. And now we're being forced to change to keep our OS up to date. Same thing happened when M$ tried to phase out XP even though anyone with an IQ over room temperature prefers XP to Vista.
I'm willing to bet that the postgres groupies here who are making light of the migration process have never actually developed a large database application and have never actually spent time actually "upgrading" an 8.2 app to 8.3. After hours spent fixing these problems, the sexiness of the new features and speed of 8.3 tend to wear off rather quickly. The result will be that postgres users bolt to mysql, just in the same way M$ users are bolting to *ANYTHING* but Vista.
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I'm not a db admin, but I run
I'm not a db admin, but I run a company that uses postgres so I can comment from a business perspective. My team has spent several weeks trying to upgrade from 8.2 to 8.3. Basically, my view is that Postgres shipped the equivalent of a Microsoft Vista. Microsoft can go on and on about what a big improvement Vista is to XP, but the fact is, it's too damn hard to migrate and too many things that were broken by the "upgrade." I really don't care that it's faster or that it has lots of cool new features. If I want faster, it's a lot cheaper to buy faster hardware. If you break our web app in 500 places that have to be manually fixed, you've shipped a three week hassle, not an upgrade. And now we're being forced to change to keep our OS up to date. Same thing happened when M$ tried to phase out XP even though anyone with an IQ over room temperature prefers XP to Vista.
I'm willing to bet that the postgres groupies here who are making light of the migration process have never actually developed a large database application and have never actually spent time actually "upgrading" an 8.2 app to 8.3. After hours spent fixing these problems, the sexiness of the new features and speed of 8.3 tend to wear off rather quickly. The result will be that postgres users bolt to mysql, just in the same way M$ users are bolting to *ANYTHING* but Vista.