Re: Postgres for SQL Server users

Brent,

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:44 PM Brent Wood <pcreso(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Igal,
>
> One relevant comment I found interesting a couple of years ago...
>
> A New Zealand Govt agency was installing an institutional GIS system
> (several thousand potential users). It supported different back-end spatial
> databases. Previous installs of this system for other clients had used MS
> SQL Server, this was the first that was installed on a Postgres/Postgis
> back end.
>
> As it was about to go into action as a live, production system, I was
> speaking to one of the team doing the installation, and asked how they had
> found working with Postgres instead of SQL Server. The reply was worth a
> few formal benchmarks:
>
> "It's so easy to connect to and sh*t it's fast!"
>
> Might be a useful comment for your presentation :-) A few years on & it is
> still working fine...
>

This is a great quote, but can I quote a real source? Otherwise it's just
something I heard from Brent on the mailing list.

Best,

Igal