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PostgreSQL Wins LJ Editor's Choice Award

Posted by michael on from the mysqld-got-signal-11 dept.

Quickfoot writes "PostgreSQL has won the LJ Editor's choice award for database servers the second year in a row and three times total (2000, 2003 and 2004). With the upcoming features in version 8.0 PostgreSQL is posed to do even better in 2005."

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  1. Current database server: PostgreSQL by BubbaThePirate · · Score: 5, Funny

    My angst drives me to new lows.
    My happiness is simply more to suffer thru.

    Current Mood: depressed.
    Current database server: PostgreSQL
    Listening to: Linkin Park

    Oh, Linux Journal.

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  2. Re:Postgres ROCKS by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I love PostgreSQL!"

    Sadly, since their affections are misplaced, this is the last generation of PostgreSQL lovers.

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  3. Re:Postgres ROCKS by Roofus · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please, all PostgreSQL lovers have taken a vow of celibacy, just like their fathers, and their father's fathers!

  4. LJ? by SlamMan · · Score: 1, Funny

    PostgreSQL has won the LJ Editor's choice award for database servers the second year in a row

    Who new LiveJournal gave out awards?

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  5. Please, No More PostgreSQL Publicity by occamboy · · Score: 4, Funny
    All of this recent publicity around PostgreSQL is making me nervous. You see, I've been using PostgreSQL as both a database AND a clue test.

    PostgreSQL is an astonishingly great piece of software, one of the few best I've ever worked with.

    Thus, if someone tells me they're using mySQL, which is not nearly as powerful as PostgreSQL , I can immediately surmise many things about them, their organization, and their code.

    However, if PostgreSQL becomes well-known through all of this publicity, entities might inadvertantly start using it, making it more difficult for me to evaluate cluelessness.

  6. Re:But what are they using? by SlashdotLemming · · Score: 4, Funny

    It looks like they are ( have been? ) quite big fans of MySQL in the past. Netcraft shows that a couple of years ago ( 4th Aug 2002 ) that their webserver was running with Mod Auth MySQL.

    So you expect them to rewrite their site with the winning technology everytime they do these awards? You, sir, have a seat waiting for you in upper management.

  7. Re:Programmable GUI by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    I know there are several that I can mention here, but none comes even half close to what M$'s Jet engine has with Access.

    Hundreds of unneeded parentheses and "DBA.everything"?

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  8. The hardest thing by reboot246 · · Score: 2, Funny

    is learning how to pronounce it.

    Hell, I just learned how to pronounce MySQL.

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