+1 I am using postgres (on heroku) and I do feel there is a lot more I could get out of it. For example, at the end of your talk there was a in-passing mention of postgres schemas, which I had no idea about, and it turns out they might be the ticket to an app I am converting to multi-tenant.
Anyway, I am up for more postgres stuff. -- Ylan Segal [email protected] On May 21, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Guyren Howe wrote: > I was surprised to find that I think the greatest interest in my last talk > was in the discussion of what advantages Postgres has. > > While I did a polemic on Postgresql vs MySQL back in the day: > > <http://sdruby.org/podcast/55> > > … and it’s still pretty much relevant, if there is interest, I could do > something that’s less of a polemic and more a technical overview of the > features that would be available to you should you switch to Postgres (or > that you just may not be aware of even if you are using Postgres), and what > they’re for. > > I’m thinking things like partial and functional indexes, custom data types, > the advanced programming features, hstore and Postgis. > > I could do a presentation on these features at the next meeting, or perhaps > in a month or so if y’all don’t want too all Postgres all the time(™). :-) > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
