Re: Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Subject Re: Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?
Date
Msg-id 20081014162822.7b5ed262@dawn.webthatworks.it
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In response to Re: Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:42:33 -0700
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> Mikkel Høgh wrote:
> > On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>
> > That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for
> > are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more
> > developers, not having sensible defaults is not really a good
> > thing. While I'll probably take the time to learn more about how
> > to tune PostgreSQL, the common Drupal-developer developer will
> > probably just say "Ah, this is slow, I'll just go back to
> > MySQL…".
>
> Developers should be familiar with the platforms they develop for.
> If they are not and they are not willing to learn them they
> shouldn't use it.

They may be willing to get familiar if they understand the platform
is suited for their needs.
Sometimes they don't know their needs ;)

--
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it


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