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Newcomer

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Postgres

This Ain't Your Grand-Ma's Document

There was a time when XML ruled the hen house. And then AJAX came home to roost and 'Voila!' a new document storage mechanism called JSON was invented. Of course, the be all and end all to creating, manipulating and encapsulating, complex content is having a great document database. The old relational solutions no longer fill the need ... or so you thought.

This talk is about using an old friend in a new way. PostgreSQL is a document database with the performance suited for today's web-portals combined with old-school reliability.

No, this ain't your grand-ma's document, it's PostgreSQL!