> So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway, > DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few > applications are really distributed for PostgreSQL.
> <snip>
> Not only > this but there was significant interest in moving more db's to PostgreSQL, > but the big limitation is that everyone who knows PostgreSQL already has a > job.
Some shops are going opposite way -- from PostgreSQL to MySQL like databases because of missing replication features. The 9.1 caught up but there is no multi-master replication like in Percona's XtraDB cluster: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb-cluster/
Postgres-XC can solve this missing multi-master replication issue but "nobody" knows that this project exists. Another project is "Galera Cluster for PostgreSQL" (Galera is used in XtraDB) but this looks like vaporware...
To be fair I was speaking specifically of the folks I talked to at MYGOSSCON. The major question was "Do we really need Oracle?"
Also I don't know about others but I have been trying to highlight Postgres-XC wherever it seems appropriate.
