Re: Demo ideas?

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:36:43AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:05:49AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:58:38AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Does anyone have suggestions on some quick things I can do to
> > > show off some of PostgreSQL's unique features?
> >
> > PL/R and PostGIS would be good for showing off extensibility. I'd
> > mention DBI-Link, but I'm not a disinterested party ;)
>
> I was going to mention PostGIS as well. Showing that you can write
> server-side functions in many languages (Perl, Python, Tcl, Ruby,
> PHP, R, sh, etc.) should score geek points, especially if you
> demonstrate what can be done with set-returning functions.

I mentioned PL/R and PostGIS because they both have easy-to-see visual
demonstrations. PostGIS is obvious, but maybe PL/R wasn't...

http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/bernier/art_66/graphingWithR.html

Cheers,
D
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