Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL? - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?
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Msg-id 200404231955.16562.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?  (Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su>)
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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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