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by thornygreb 4031 days ago
Longtime Oracle dev/dba. I have been using PG now for over 6 years, and it is my #1 choice for new projects if possible. Oracle beats it in instrumentation and tooling and to me the Oracle RDBMS documentation is more thorough. The implementation of MVCC is radically different and I'm not too keen on vacuuming but it is a necessary evil tradeoff for the benefits in PG's implementation. And above all I can put PG on a box with 40 cores and have dozens of hot standby's for $0 in licensing fees.