Re: PostgreSQL Advocacy, Thoughts and Comments

Randal,

we have contrib/tsearch2 which could be used for full text searching
and perl wrapper illustrating simple search engine would be quite
useful.

    Oleg

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> >>>>> "Unihost" == Unihost Web Hosting <tony@unihost.net> writes:
>
> Unihost> Further to this post, what might actually work is to convince O'
> Unihost> Reilly (since they have PostgreSQL book/s) to do some articles like
> Unihost> they have for PG, but making full use of the PG database.  For
> Unihost> instance, building a simple data-warehouse using PG.  Articles that
> Unihost> show off an OSS product/project in a clearly enterprise light in a
> Unihost> step-by-step fashion.  There have been so many articles on DB design
> Unihost> using MySQL.  How about an article on DB design using all the
> Unihost> functionality of a real ORDBMS.
>
> Well, since I need 2.5 ideas per month for the three columns I'm still
> writing, I'm certainly in a position to write nice things about PG,
> although I always have to work it in from a Perl slant.
>
> Actually, I'm sure that any of the magazines I'm in would appreciate
> an additional article or two from me.
>
> If you can think of something that fits in 2000 words or so (or 4000
> if it needs part 1 and 2), and can have a Perl wrapper, I'd appreciate
> some inspiration.
>
>

    Regards,
        Oleg
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