Re: read this and puke

> Granted it means that we need to find people that are using PostgreSQL and
> find someone to write about it as well, but this sort of thing is pretty
> useful. Heck the whole "Community" section on zend.com is pretty nice.

I think you've made a very good point here- I went to the "user gallery"
early in my evaluation of PostgreSQL, and found that it was not organized in
a useful way. A few in-depth case studies or a more useful way to slice &
dice the data would be a great improvement.

It looks like the gallery is connected to pgsql.com, rather than
PostgreSQL.org. maybe somebody on the org side could do something nicer on
the main site. Our company would probably be willing to supply information
for a case-study.

Some of the ways to slice the info that might help for evaluators would be:

Size of database
Estimated transactions per day
Number of users
Size of company (employees or customers)
Database converted from, if conversion
Interface used (DBI, PHP, JDBC etc...)
Other tools used (How PostgreSQL is integrated with other tools to create
applications.)

Users should have a way to update this info as their database evolves. For
instance, we *hope* to add at least 1 Gbyte and many users each month, so we
look pretty insignificant now, but it should be an impressive database soon.
Unfortunately, when we added our first monthly chunk of data, I couldn't
update our info in the gallery to reflect that success.

-Nick

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