On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 21:30, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> As a unrelated note, I was asked to stay an extra week to help a company
> that was having problems with their Postgres platform. They had big
> problems because the server went down everyday at 3.00am, so they were
> losing confidence on Postgres. They had offers to migrate to a commercial
> database, and apparently they were about to give up. I found a lot of
> misconceptions, bad DB design, badly written code, on which I gave
> advise on how to fix. They found out that configuring Postgres
> appropiately the server wouldn't go down; that by rewriting queries, the
> reports would run faster; and by restructuring PHP code, it would be
> more readable and maintanable. Probably nothing that any of you doesn't
> know, but they are now very happy with free software in general and
> Postgres in particular.
Very nifty! That's quite a nice success story!
Yours,
Tom