Re: Slashdot and PostgreSQL

I don't think they're moving the actual Slashdot site to PostgreSQL... They
paid a bunch of money to the mySQL folks to add replication support to
mySQL...

I think other sites based on Slashcode wanted to be able to use PostgreSQL
though...

Hunter

> From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:54:37 -0500 (EST)
> To: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: [GENERAL] Slashdot and PostgreSQL
> 
> I see on Slashdot that:
> 
> Slashcode 2.0 ("Bender") is officially in beta. We now have themes,
> plugins, an abstacted database layer (MySQL support is beta, PostreSQL
> is alpha, so finally the rivalry can be settled ;)
> 
> So, while Sourceforge has moved to PostgreSQL, seems like Slashdot may
> well too.
> 
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