PostgreSQL Stuff

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Beginning With Postgres

So I have been working with Databases in Production for my entire career (Mostly SQL Server) and have finally made the commitment to bringing up a production PostgreSQL installation into production. With the latest version 8.1.3, the Windows port is rock solid.

I have purchased the .NET Data Provider from Corelab (a russian company with decent tech support but absolutly no phone support :( )

Corelab has integrated their Postgres .NET Data Provier with Microsoft's Enterprise Library.
(the January 2006 edition that is integrated with .NET 2.0) With this integration, I can use all of the nice rich library functionality of Microsoft .NET environment with a "Free Database". The enterprise library contains all of the plumbing for configuration, cryptography, caching, exception handling, logging, and security. That is alot of plumbing. :)

I'll use this blog to keep a library of my findings along the way and to share with others that want to go in this direction