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From: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Rod Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:05:33 +0400
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Hi!

Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>* Recommended replication solution (erserver?)
>>>* Recommended full-text search solution (tsearch?)
>>>* Recommended GUI / web frontend (PGAdmin / phpPgAdmin)
>>>* Drivers: ODBC, JDBC, whatever
>>>* PostGIS
>>>* Banners to put on the website
>>>* A description of what to find in the contrib dir
> 
> 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/

> 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.

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

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