[ale] code bloat

[James Sumners]

Use the "instant client" --
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is the zipped Oracle 10g client for 32-bit Linux a 458MB file?
>
> I don't want to replicate the entire dataset in the client! I just
> want to be able to a query and get a subset returned.
>
> Argh! stupid code bloat....
>
> I can do EVERYTHING in Postgresql that the Oracle dba is doing with
> less overhead, far better ROI and easier installation (11 rack is a
> total PITA and Oracle is barely able to make it run on their RedHat
> spinoff "Unbreakable Linux"). The only things I can't do are generate
> a pretty picture of the data model easily (well - sort of - a tool I
> use doesn't grok all the myriad of datatypes available to PostgreSQL
> so it mislabels a few things) and do automatic partitioning and
> dimensioning (it can be done with manual scripts to function in an
> automatic manner - Oracle includes prewritten scripting and calls it
> an automatic process).
>
> All of postgresql rpm's (testers, replictors, jdbc's, procedural
> languages, clients, dev environments, EVERYTHING!) is less than 30M.
> Maybe Oracle license fee is based on lines of code...
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III



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