That's kind of missing the point a bit. He is really looking for what all IT managers are looking for at companies of a certain size: someone to pull his kahone

That's kind of missing the point a bit. He is really looking for what all IT managers are looking for at companies of a certain size: someone to pull his kahones from the fire when and as where needed. The real answer is: yes, there are people who can give you this level of support if you use Postgres, at I suspect cheaper rates and likely with a faster response time. For the situation to occur that he describes with an Oracle database then a truly terrifying sequence of catastrophic events must have occurred, because Oracle is quite recoverable. But then again, so is Postgres. And under normal circumstances, Oracle support is absolutely dreadful, so I shudder to think what sort of money they paid Oracle to recover from this event!