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Re:It's the Postgres Age by FuzzyDunlop on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @03:31PM (#4014874)
And where will it stop? Will it have a built in email client next?

While it may seem nice and convenient to have all these different features in one nice package, I'm struggling to see what that's such a good idea in the long run.

The thing with the separation of concerns means you use software that does one thing and does it well. Maybe this comes with a greater maintenance cost, I don't know, but I think I'd feel safer with that, because of the maintenance reasons you list.

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Re:It's the Postgres Age by bsg75 on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @08:03PM (#4015999)
Many Postgres features and packages can be enabled / disabled via configure, and the engine built, if you want a "leaner" deploy.

All RDBMS engines have a variety of features that are not necessary in all deployments.

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