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PostgreSQL 9.0 Released
poet writes "Today the PostgreSQL Global Development Group released PostgreSQL 9.0. This release marks a major milestone in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, with added features such as streaming replication (including DDL), Hot Standby and other nifty items like DO. The release notes list all the new features, and the guide explains them in greater detail. You can download a copy now."
Congratulations to all the Postgres developers and a big thank you from me for an amazing job! Postgres is a wonderful RDBMS and one of the best free software projects there is. Rock on!
Football Odds
LMAO... unless my sarcasm detector is malfunctioning, comparing Postgres to MySQL is extraordinarily absurd... like comparing megaliths to legos.
The Admin and the Engineer
Business logic never belongs in the DB. Even triggers are suspect. They can be horribly inefficient.
The fact that triggers *can* be inefficient is no reason not to use them when there's a good implementation and competent DBAs to make sure they *aren't*. Also, business logic never belongs in the DB? To the contrary- a lot of business logic is sets of rules to maintain consistency between various things. That sort of logic is *precisely* what belongs in the DB, rather than scattered throughout a variety of applications running on top of it.
The ringing of the division bell has begun... -PF
Part of the reason MySQL gets treated as a toy is its release discipline- or lack thereof. At least one of the 5.x releases came out with *known* data-loss bugs; that's just not even remotely acceptable in a database, and that's the sort of impression that's hard to shake: people aren't just going to look at subsequent releases and go "oh, well, they say they're paying more attention this time, I guess that's good enough".
The ringing of the division bell has begun... -PF