Re: updating /about/

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 14:29 +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> I was just looking at our current self description on 
> http://www.postgresql.org and I think we should do some 
> overhaul/updating. Some random things the spring to mind(in no 
> particular order) are:
> 
> 
> * reference more recent SQL Standards
> * integrated full text search instead of openfts which has not been 
> updated in > 3 years
> * talk about GIN
> * we have more advanced stuff than simple subselect support
> * UUID
> * mention warm standby
> * do we really need to duplicate a lot of stuff from the introduction 
> part inthe later sections (like the client libraries available)
> * we don't have async replication yet (maybe we should move it to the 
> "Highly Customizable" block)
> * there is no r-tree index any more
> * do we really need to talk so much about oracle on that page?
> 
> 
> any comments or other ideas?

I think the page should be trimmed by about 600 words. If we want to
have a "detailed" information page cool, but /about should cover the
basics:

 1. What is it
 2. Why we rock
    * Community
    * Technology
      * Extensible, flexible, buzzword compliant

Joshua D. Drake




> 
> Stefan
> 
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