Re: Large scale PostgreSQL deployment.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:29:41AM -0300, Bruno G. Albuquerque wrote:
>
> Not strictly on topic but I guess it is interesting for all of us
> anyway. I work doing consulting job for a company called DBA Engenharia
> de Sistemas that works as a contractor for a brazilian government
> project called "Cadastramento ?nico" which is a project to centralize
> all social-related government records into a single database.
>
> This project has a program called "Cadastramento ?nico Offline" and the
> lasted version (version 6) has 2 components: A client and a server. The
> server part is simply a repackaged PostgreSQL 8.0.1 distribution and is
> being made available for Windows and Linux. All cities are required to
> run this software so there are more than 5000 PostgreSQL servers running
> due it.

It's disappointing that they're sending out a version that has known
data-loss bugs. :(

In any case, I'm cc'ing -advocacy in case someone wants to try and get
them to do a case study.
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