Linux Productivity Magazine: PostgreSQL

“By 1996 Borland, Microsoft and Powerbuilder/Sybase gave the
kitchen table programmer tools to build an enterprise app,
including a ‘DBMS’ which, while good enough for testing, was
limited to a handful of connections.You could buy the development
tool for $400 to $2000, but to deploy it you’d spend a fortune on
licenses for DBMS and other middleware.

“Then came Linux.

“One by one, technologies unaffordable to individual software
developers became free. Compilers, network technologies, and even
PostgreSQL–a professional grade DBMS.

“PostgreSQL, often nicknamed ‘Postgres,’ offers SQL query
support. It offers a high power command line front end called psql
for a DBA to manage the database. It has excellent transactional
support. Sophisiticated triggers and stored procedures are
available thanks to the built in plpgsql programming
language…”

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