Re: The Business Case for PostgreSQL

On 6/17/07, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> Implementing complex statistical functions tends to be, behind the
> scenes, a pretty Simple Matter Of Programming.  The formulae may look
> nasty, but the computations are usually not all that bad, once
> understood.

Agree.

> In contrast, I have to call replication a "pretty exotic" feature.
> And I don't think implementing replication is particularly easy,
> either.  The challenges with multimaster are legion...

Definitely agree.

> "From the outset, PostgreSQL was constructed to meet the goals of
> active businesses which could rely on it as a core element of their
> mission-critical IT infrastructure."
>
> Nope.  At the outset, it was constructed as a research project.  When
> it became an OSS project, I'm not sure those were yet the goals.

Agree completely.

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