Re: updating /about/

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 14:29 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> I was just looking at our current self description on
> http://www.postgresql.org and I think we should do some
> overhaul/updating. Some random things the spring to mind(in no
> particular order) are:
>
>
> * reference more recent SQL Standards
> * integrated full text search instead of openfts which has not been
> updated in > 3 years
> * talk about GIN
> * we have more advanced stuff than simple subselect support
> * UUID
> * mention warm standby
> * do we really need to duplicate a lot of stuff from the introduction
> part inthe later sections (like the client libraries available)
> * we don't have async replication yet (maybe we should move it to the
> "Highly Customizable" block)
> * there is no r-tree index any more
> * do we really need to talk so much about oracle on that page?
>
>
> any comments or other ideas?

I think the page should be trimmed by about 600 words. If we want to
have a "detailed" information page cool, but /about should cover the
basics:

1. What is it
2. Why we rock
* Community
* Technology
* Extensible, flexible, buzzword compliant

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Stefan
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