Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Some advocacy suggestions

[Chris A. <ro...@gm...>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd...@co...> wrote:
> Well that sounds like just a more complete website in general running on
> something like Joomla or Drupal. Thoughts?

Hi, regular lurker on the list here.

I've been burnt several times by Joomla, mainly on security issues. My
suspicion is that maintaining a Joomla web site is a hefty job, and
that most people get slack (I currently host a community web site's
Joomla on my server, but am not the site admin - it's been plagued by
security problems, including attackers abusing it for sending spam and
such).

Obviously it'd be rather cool to get a system that's backed by a
Postgres database, and run it on XC. It always looks good to
demonstrably eat your own dogfood, even if the web site could run
quite happily on a single-computer Postgres!

The system I'm developing at work is currently running on vanilla
Postgres, but as we get closer to a beta launch, I'm probably going to
be asked to look into forking-for-reliability again. My first port of
call would be articles on the web site about how to migrate, how to
guarantee reliability even in the face of N node failures, etc. That's
the sort of thing I'd recommend / hope for from the site.

Chris Angelico