PostgreSQL Plans From The Source

WeaselOne writes: "Interesting Q&A with Bruce Momjian (one of the core PostgreSQl developers) on LWN.net. They caught up with him at O'Reilly where he was speaking (great intro sessions on PostgreSQL BTW). He lays out some interesting stuff about the direction of the database."

Replication

[MrBlack]

I'd love to see replication in postgres. I too feel that none of the vendors have handled it particularly well (at least none I've seen). You need to design for it from day one, and hold it's hand all the way.

Project Leaders

[Nastard]

Is it just me, or is it becoming increasingly difficult to find OSS-developers who don't take credit for everything wonderful about their project? The first thing I noticed is that he kept saying "we" and "us", speaking as a group, a community.

I don't use PostgreSQL, but this dude seems like an okay guy. Glad to see that someone out there is still giving credit where credit is due.

Keep Rockin'

[Nohea]

I think PostgreSQL's recent success is great. I used MS Access first (in my Windows server days), then moved to PostgreSQL on RH linux. However, this was a few years ago, and the db couldn't keep up with my web app. So i moved to Oracle out of necessity.

I still use PostgreSQL for small projects, and could use it more in the future as it gets better. Oracle rocks, but it's damn expensive, so it's only good for bigger jobs. Plus, open source is cool.

Re:Keep Rockin'

[wilhelm9]

Often when reading posts I get the impression that the DBMS choices are OSS or Oracle (or perhaps DB2). That is far from the reality, there are dozens of other products that will provide a better scalability than most OSS-products but still don't cash in on a well-known brand name.

I name two of them for you, Clustra (http://www.clustra.com) and Mimer SQL (http://www.mimer.com).