Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 23:46:16 -0600
From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Better Features document?
Message-ID: <20010407234616.A16357@cc.usu.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104071535240.5704-100000@olympus.scw.org>
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	from jburton@scw.org on Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:52:00PM -0400

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Joel Burton wrote:
 
> My fear is that users & potential users come to PG w/o learning what a
> view is, how triggers can be helpful in designing database systems, why
> custom aggregates are so great, etc. (Those of us w/CS backgrounds do well
> to remember how many web database designers don't have that background!)

	Wholeheartedly agreed! I see this happen many times here at our
university. People look at PG's website, then look at MySQL's site and see
MySQL's (very misleading) "benchmarks", and since they don't have the db
background and are looking for an esay to use DB, they go with MySQL.
 
> Does anyone want to help put this together?

	Let me know how can I be of help. It should only take you one day to
write a good document listing PG's features.

	-Roberto
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