Re: PostgreSQL book market up 84%

[Tom Copeland <tom(at)infoether(dot)com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:02 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:53:39PM +0100, Guido Barosio wrote:
> > quote: "A surprise to many may be the strong growth of PostgreSQL, up
> > 84% over a year ago. We've also been hearing some signs of growth in
> > the Postgres market from our "alpha geek" radar, with reasons given
> > including better support for geo data, and better handling of very
> > large data sets. New companies like Greenplum and EnterpriseDB have
> > also brought a little focus to this market. We're updating our
> > PostgreSQL book, and watching this market closely."
> > 
> > pgsql 8.0 , windows port. That should explain a bit these figures, tho.
> 
> Actually, I think it's more than just that. For example, my
> understanding is that even though it's database agnostic, a lot of Rails
> users are going with PostgreSQL.

Right on.  We're running http://getindi.com/ on Rails + PostgreSQL, and
I make a point of occasionally scanning the Rails mailing list for folks
having problems with getting Rails working with PostgreSQL.  A couple of
times it's been that they're spelling the database adaptor as "postgres"
vs "postgresql" :-)

Yours,

Tom