Episode 10: Postgres, Bla, Bla, Cider

This time around we’re joined by Selena Deckelmann, who as a Postgres contributor talks to us about some of the burning questions many PHP developers often have about Postgres when considering it as a replacement for the PHP’s defacto-standard relational DB: MySQL. We ask “Why are so few of the “cool kids” using Postgresql?” and “What are the most important differences between MySQL & Postgres?”, and after a bunch of useful discussion on things like true full text search, complex indexes, PostGIS and Foreign Data Wrappers we end up discussing cider and chickens. Standard. Planet Postgres Taps - Simple database import/export app Multicorn - Unified data access library SQL Alchemy pgFouine - a PostgreSQL log analyzer JSON datatype - Store JSON directly in a Postgres field. Redis4You - Postgres 9.1 foreign data wrapper interface One man vs. his pet hate in life, Oreo cream - The proper way of solving life’s problems Discuss this on Reddit.