> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:19:28PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: >> On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:09 PM, <john.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> <john.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >There are a few obstinate anti-open source customers though, that >> >prevent my plan from moving forward. They've bought into whatever >> >hype they've read and just simply say no. Now, that said, they're >> >fairly non-technical and probably had never heard of PostgreSQL >> >before we presented our plan. >> >> how would postgres be exposed to them anyhow? wouldn't it just sit >> behind the scenes of your front-end? > > Backups. You really need to explain pg_dump to the end user. Unless you include a tool that internally performs a pg_dump, in binary form, so they don't need to know about what it's doing, and so that it doesn't show off being a raw text form that will clue them in ;-). Think about any of the apps that used embedded DBs like Faircom, Raima, and such; you'd need to run some extra module to do a "backup." If the intent is to pretend PostgreSQL is being embedded, it's natural for the results to have a shape like that... -- output = reverse("moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc") http://linuxdatabases.info/info/spreadsheets.html "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." -- John Steinbeck ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly