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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. Re:Postgresql helps Linux pentrate corporates by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I'm hoping its the thin end of the wedge."

    Bet you're not the first database fan to wish for that. ;)

    (I love out of context comments.)

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  2. Re:Postgres rocks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think there's at least 2 ways to solve your second problem today: 1) Create an appropriate view that has a column defined by a subquery that contains the union of the two target columns, and 2) Assign a check constraint that makes the makes sure the new value is in the subquery of the union of the two target columns.

    I'm not a guru, those are just guesses.

  3. Wheelbarrow? by gbjbaanb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's with the icon for Databases? A wheelbarrow (a very nicely rendered wheelbarrow though).

    Surely a filing cabinet would have been a more intuitive choice.

    And a stapler as the IT icon? what's going on with /. icons?!