Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] custom types and optimization - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] custom types and optimization
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980601095613.448U-100000@hub.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] custom types and optimization  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > postgresql=> select count(name) from register;
> > count
> > -----
> >  1361
> > (1 row)
> >
> >     Not bad...but I don't imagine that's a tenth of all the users, is
> > it?
>
> Wow, that is a big number, and the 10% is probably correct.  I don't
> think I am even in there.

    I know I'm not ;(

> How can we reverse the "bad publicity" and get people to start looking
> at us again?

    Testimonials?  Not fanatical statements...something intelligent
like what Herouth Maoz wrote?  Maybe with a pointer to the project that
he/she used PostgreSQL for?  Start up a 'User Comments and Projects'
page...?

    How many ppl are actually using the 'Powered by' logo on their
sites?  Actually, just looking at that, and am I the only one that finds
it unreadable?  I can barely even see that its a 'cat'...



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