Re: List of Large sites using Postgres

    Oh.
    I forget this thread.
    Anyone knows a great web site backed by PostgreSQL?
    Thanks,        Paulo Henrique
Quoting Robert D. Nelson (RDNELSON@co.centre.pa.us):
> >lycos, yahoo, etc... I do believe the concern here is that we host a few
> >sites that use a database backend, and those sites generate at least 20
> >million hits a month, and they dont want them to die if we were to change
> >things...
>
> I do believe that you should start by telling management than any changes,
> regardless of what you move to (be it Oracle, SQL server, Sybase, Postgres,
> or anything else) will be accompanied by some pitfalls. Everyone knows this,
> but conveniently forgets it when they can more easily pin the blame on you.
> Make sure you voice these concerns well before anything happens, so that
> it's a concious decision to go do something that will cause some pitfalls,
> no matter how well the conversion goes. It will also make it easier for you
> when something breaks, you have to tell your boss, and he tells you "I knew
> we shouldn't have gone with Postgres!", even tho it was something as simple
> as a typo in the converted code ;)
>
> That's all the advice I have for you, and I'd like to see the large list
> myself...
>
>
> Rob Nelson
> rdnelson@co.centre.pa.us
>