[ale] code bloat

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

458MB is almost 3x the size of the debian net installation cd.

So, not only is the oracle client bigger than the postgres binary.
It's bigger than everything you need to get a debian system up and
running.

-Johnny

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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