Brent, On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:44 PM Brent Wood <pcr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Igal, > > One relevant comment I found interesting a couple of years ago... > > A New Zealand Govt agency was installing an institutional GIS system > (several thousand potential users). It supported different back-end spatial > databases. Previous installs of this system for other clients had used MS > SQL Server, this was the first that was installed on a Postgres/Postgis > back end. > > As it was about to go into action as a live, production system, I was > speaking to one of the team doing the installation, and asked how they had > found working with Postgres instead of SQL Server. The reply was worth a > few formal benchmarks: > > "It's so easy to connect to and sh*t it's fast!" > > Might be a useful comment for your presentation :-) A few years on & it is > still working fine... > This is a great quote, but can I quote a real source? Otherwise it's just something I heard from Brent on the mailing list. Best, Igal
