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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Rod Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:55:16 -0400
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On Friday 23 April 2004 16:05, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> > I'm really nervous about pointing to "recommended" solutions where we
> > have several.   I'd rather have links to all mature projects in that
> > category.
>
> Okay, s/recommended/mature/
>

good suggestion. 

> > Replication is actually several different problems demanding several
> > different solutions.   So no one replication solution is going to cover
> > all needs, ever.
>
> Okay, but currently *the* replication solution that's linked from every
> page of postgresql.org is pgreplication. Which is either dead or just
> stinks like one.
>
> > For GUIs, we have an embarassment of them, and I would not want to be
> > responsible for telling anyone their project is "not recommended". 
> > That's an effective way of making a lot of enemies in the OSS community. 
> >  Instead, I might suggest listing all OSS GUIs in order of popularity --
> > which still lets PGAdmin & phpPGAdmin float to the top, but without
> > telling Xpg or PGAccess to take a flying leap into the void.
>

josh, did you see... rod taylor i think... post in advocacy about criteria for 
such a page. the first 6 seemed pretty good. 

> Who will define "popularity"?
>
> Of course, it is possible to just create a page for all the GUIs, but it
> will require discipline or else it will degenerate to
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/related.html
> or
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/interfaces.html

you mean like http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/GUITools ?

Robert Treat
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Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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