Bruce Momjian: Postgres 9.0 Feedback on Slashdot

I usually read the Slashdot comments about Postgres releases because it gives me a good barometer of how Postgres is perceived. I have been doing this for 10+ years, and started at the time when MySQL was the open source database darling, and Postgres was something "you might want to look at".

For Postgres 9.0, the comments were very positive. The comments include these glowing quotes:

• "PostgreSQL is one of the few examples of exceptional software engineering I provide as an example when somebody asks."
• "Finally, PostgreSQL is a proper independent open source project with a structure that all other open source projects should be judged by."

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