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Ah. I went Postgresql many years ago, and at time it was the databases for stick-in-the-mud computer science types who cared about boring crap like database consistency and silly stuff like that. Mysql was where all the cool kids went.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 07:41:13 AM EST
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Oh, and it was GPLed. I don't like GPL infrastructure any more than I like proprietary infrastructure.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 07:42:09 AM EST
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As usual, too many legacy machines with too many different standards got passed over to us in my last job.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 07:59:23 AM EST
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