[NBLUG/talk] Transferring data from Oracle to an open-source database

[Lincoln Peters]

Lincoln Peters wrote:
> In addition, since laptop computers are involved, it will not always 
> be possible to synchronize the replicas immediately after one mirror 
> is changed.

I just now discovered that MySQL is available and officially supported 
on MacOS X, but PostgreSQL is not.  Since the laptop I had in mind was a 
MacBook Pro,* and I'm not excited by the idea of building something as 
complicated as an SQL database server by hand,** I think this means I'll 
end up using MySQL.  Unless, of course, there is some compelling reason 
to use PostgreSQL that would justify the extra work required to build it 
from source...


* And, yes, there is a build of MySQL for the Intel Macs.

** Just to be clear: it's not the act of building from source that 
worries me, but rather the compile errors that seem to crop up every 
time I attempt something like this.

-- 
Lincoln Peters
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