Forum OpenACS Q&A: Covert Oracle to Postgresql

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1: Covert Oracle to Postgresql
Posted by Bob Wheldon on 03/12/03 05:21 PM
Is it possible to covert an application using 9iAS, Portal and Web Generator to Postgresql?
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2: Re: Covert Oracle to Postgresql (response to 1)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 03/12/03 05:30 PM
Yes but only if you do it in secret.
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3: Re: Covert Oracle to Postgresql (response to 1)
Posted by Talli Somekh on 03/12/03 05:46 PM
Covert is one approach, but I would suggest pre-emptive strikes regardless of what the internationa - er, uh, I mean OpenACS community suggests.

talli

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4: Re: Covert Oracle to Postgresql (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 03/13/03 06:15 PM
Bob, I'm not really that familiar with the portal and web generator, but the answer is yes... almost anything can be done with enough work. The question is how much work it would be. (Sorry, I'm being pedantic). I'm not really qualified to answer that question. I am porting our ACS 3.4 Oracle site to OpenACS 4.6or7 Postgres, and that is a pretty large job, but probably worth the thousands of dollars we'll save in license fees.

Plus, you get a lot of fringe benefits being part of the OpenACS "code stream".