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
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> 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
