Re: I just got it: PostgreSQL Application Server -- a

Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>

From: pgsql@mohawksoft.com
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql@mohawksoft.com, "Thomas Hallgren" <thhal@mailblocks.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-06-14T11:40:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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>>The "PostgreSQL Enhanced Server" (How's that name? Maybe we call it
>> Zerver
>>and use PEZ?) idea is how to take the excellent core of PostgreSQL and
>>productize it in much the same way distributions take the Linux kernel
>> and
>>may a GNU/Linux system.
>>
>>
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> It would seem to me that this is more correct in the commercial space.
> Of course I am biased but
> what you are talking about sounds a whole lot like RedHat Enterprise
> versus Fedora etc....

No, I don't think I agree. It does not need to be "Commercial" as it is
similar to Apache Jacarta too.

If you are going to do a complex project with PostgreSQL, you sort of have
a lot of construction ahead of you. Yea, it is a great SQL engine, but to
build a high speed web site, or virtually any complex project, you will
need a lot of add-ons.  Rather than have everyone duplate the effort of
finding the extensions, why not have a project with all this stuff
installed. AFAIK, and correct me if I'm wrong, having functions installed
doesn't affect performance.