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I've been working with PostgreSQL professionally for almost 20 years, I also worked professionally with Oracle for around 10 with some overlap between those tim
by sbuttgereit 6y ago
I've been working with PostgreSQL professionally for almost 20 years, I also worked professionally with Oracle for around 10 with some overlap between those time frames.
I can vouch for your comment largely. I love PostgreSQL and expect to work with it pretty much exclusively for professional RDBMS needs into a fairly distant future (with perhaps some SQL Server)... but there are features that were in Oracle back in the earlier 00's that PostgreSQL is only within the past few years catching up to. Partitioning, materialized views, etc. even though PostgreSQL is got these things now, the features are still not a feature-full and mature as they were in Oracle back then.
And speaking of SQL Server, the tooling and reporting capabilities there are something that I haven't seen achieved in the PostgreSQL ecosystem yet (to the point where my go-to client interface is still good old psql for lack of anything really better).
So, I think the kudos coming to the PostgreSQL team whenever a post like this surfaces here and elsewhere is definitely earned. But perspective on how far there is left to go is warranted and should be exciting to those that are building the future of PostgreSQL... that not all problems are solved and that you're not just there to oil the cogs laid down by generations past.