[ale] code bloat

[Jim Kinney]

Much better! Thanks!!!

still bigger than PostgreSQL.....  :-}

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:09 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>>
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>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
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