Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:24, Mark Steckel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for the cross post.
>
> I am working on a requirements and recommendation document for a division
> of the State of Hawaii Attorney General's office. We are proposing that
> Postgres be used for the application database. Not too surprisingly we are
> being asked for additional information because Postgres is open source.
>
> We all know that Postgres is good and given the requirements and scale of
> this project (fairly small) it is a very good fit. I have looked at the
> case studies listed on postgresql.org and searched the mailing list
> archives. I have also scrounged the Internet looking for examples of
> Postgres being used in government, preferably in 24x7 capacities. Overall,
> not a lot of examples out there, which seems strange because I know it is
> being used by various government agencies.
>
> Its the communities of users and developers that make open source software
> so powerful, I decided that the best course of action was to leverage the
> community.
>
> So, if you have used Postgres (or know that it has been used) for a
> government project, especially in a 24x7 environment, I would greatly
> appreciate hearing about it. Ideally, I need more than just the project
> name. Specifically, A brief description of the project, number of
> users/transactions as day/week/month, etc, whatever details you have and
> can share.

There are probably thousands of 24/7 operations running postgresql.
None of them have to tell anyone, so it's no surprise you haven't heard
about them.

One of the more interesting projects running on postgresql is the .org
domain. Do a search for postgresql and afilias and .org or whatnot.