Episode 10: Postgres, Bla, Bla, Cider

This time around we’re joined by Selena Deckelmann, who as a Postgres contributor
talks to us about some of the burning questions many PHP developers often have about Postgres
when considering it as a replacement for the PHP’s defacto-standard relational DB: MySQL.

We ask “Why are so few of the “cool kids” using Postgresql?” and “What are the most important differences between MySQL & Postgres?”, and after a bunch of useful discussion on things like true full text search,
complex indexes, PostGIS and Foreign Data Wrappers we end up discussing cider and chickens. Standard.

• Planet Postgres


• Taps - Simple database import/export app


• Multicorn - Unified data access library


• SQL Alchemy


• pgFouine - a PostgreSQL log analyzer


• JSON datatype - Store JSON directly in a Postgres field.


• Redis4You - Postgres 9.1 foreign data wrapper interface


• One man vs. his pet hate in life, Oreo cream - The proper way of solving life’s problems

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