Re: High-Profile Advocacy - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: High-Profile Advocacy
Date
Msg-id 1087947085.86545.120.camel@jester
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In response to Re: High-Profile Advocacy Opportunity:VbulletinForum  ("Donnacha Mac Gloinn" <postgresql.org@donnacha.com>)
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On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:45, Donnacha Mac Gloinn wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:41:39 -0400, "Rod Taylor" <pg@rbt.ca> said:
> >
> > Funnily enough, lack of PostgreSQL support is the reason why we chose to
> > go with another BB software rather than vB. Maintenance of a MySQL
> > installation just for the BB software wasn't worth it.
> >
> > So, whether they want to acknowledge it or not, they're not the best
> > product in their field for some.
> >
>
> Which products do you consider better, which did you eventually settle
> upon and why?

The big one was the ability to integrate logins cleanly. Either via a
transactional interface OR (in this case) via a PostgreSQL view.

We're going to use phpbb and edit it to remove abilities like changing
logins & passwords, instead relying on other interfaces for this.



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