On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote: > > Postgres generally seems to favor extensibility over integration, and I > > generally agree with that approach. > > I generally agree as well, but..... > > I think there is always a balance between "out of the box" vs > "extensibility." I think integration and extensibility is fantastic for > addaptation of your product, but "oobe" (out of box experience) is > important for those you want to target. > > By all practical measure PostgreSQL is miles ahead of MySQL, but MySQL > wins because it is the defacto PHP database. PostgreSQL does not target > PHP in any real sense, I am proposing adding this extension to change > that.
Rather than try and include everything and the kitchen-sink in the baseline PostgreSQL, why not create a set of PHP targeted ports/packages? Maybe even bundle Apache in there so you've got your own 'LAPP' stack? (Though being a FreeBSD guy, I'd rather have 'FAPP'...) One of the key advantages to this approach is that now you can really create a package that makes sense to the target audience by doing things like automatically including PHP as a procedure language. And of course, there's no reason this has to be limited to just PHP... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
