Re: Data Storage Issue (Basic Issue)

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>>  From what I've been reading and hearing from DBAs (disclaimer: I am 
>> but a lowly programmer myself, not a DBA), journaling file syatems are 
>> not the key to safety in big-iron DMBSes like PostgreSQL and Oracle.
> 
> I don't think PostgreSQL is big-iron.
> 
> Oracle, DB2 and to some extent Sybase and SQLServer are
> rather dominant in that area.

By "big-iron" I don't mean market dominance but the ability to sup****t
even 
large enterprise applications scalably, efficiently and safely.  In that 
regard PG is at least the equal of the others you mention.

-- 
Lew