Re: New and investigating

Wow, thank you very much Andrew. That's the kind of stuff i was looking
for. I'll go there ASAP.

Please let me know when the case study will be available.

Alain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew McMillan" <andrew(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: "Alain Gougeon" <agougeon(at)sigma(dot)gov(dot)bo>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New and investigating

> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:14, Alain Gougeon wrote:
> >
> > . Is it really industrial strength? Where can i find articles/white
> > papers/etc that document it? (many people in the lists mention MySQL
> > and stuff like that, that's another ballgame alltogether)
>
> Hi Alain,
>
> I was the lead architect for the .nz shared registry system which uses
> PostgreSQL. Since the organisation behind this service is a public one,
> the process of selection had to be quite public and as a result you can
> read various documents of our decisions and prototype findings on the
> New Zealand Domain Name Commissioner's website:
>
> The prototype findings document covers some details of our experience
> with PostgreSQL for this project, and the Technical Architecture
> document which preceded it discusses some reasons why we believed
> PostgreSQL to be a good choice.
>
> Look at http://www.dnc.org.nz/index.php?clsid=1&catid=39 for some of our
> documents. Note that these are not focussed particularly on our choice
> of PostgreSQL - that was only one of the decisions we were making.
>
> I'm also assisting to put some of our experience into a case study for
> PostgreSQL at the moment, however.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew.
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