I don't think they're moving the actual Slashdot site to PostgreSQL... They
paid a bunch of money to the mySQL folks to add replication support to
mySQL...
I think other sites based on Slashcode wanted to be able to use PostgreSQL
though...
Hunter
> From: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:54:37 -0500 (EST)
> To: PostgreSQL-general <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [GENERAL] Slashdot and PostgreSQL
>
> I see on Slashdot that:
>
> Slashcode 2.0 ("Bender") is officially in beta. We now have themes,
> plugins, an abstacted database layer (MySQL support is beta, PostreSQL
> is alpha, so finally the rivalry can be settled ;)
>
> So, while Sourceforge has moved to PostgreSQL, seems like Slashdot may
> well too.
>
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