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postgresql @ highscalability.com

as you perhaps know there is this site/blog called high scalability. it contains articles about various things related to performance, scalability, availability and so on.

usually, when there is something about databases, it is about mysql. luckily for us, today they showed something about postgresql:

“Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users“.

Posted on 2008-04-06|Tags performance, postgresql, scalability, skype|

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