On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are downsides too -- you lose access to the excellent middleware
> tools out there, and you are 'stuck' on postgres and need to come up
> with hard to find and expensive postgres talent. You need to be
> prepared to blaze a path, etc etc.
Yep. Also, it's REAL easy to stick a caching layer like memcached
into the middle tier app layer, but nearly impossible to do so in
pgsql. For large systems, this would make pg as an app server a nogo.
But for small to medium sized systems that don't need caching it
could work out.
