23 PostgreSQL
Another popular open-source database is PostgreSQL. It is therefore not surprising that there is a corresponding extension for PHP to access it.
The PostgreSQL database (www.postgresql.org) was originally developed by the University of California, Berkeley. The software earned recognition, but success only came after the source code was released as open source.
Many developers give PostgreSQL a wide berth because it is supposedly unstable and prone to data corruption. Fortunately, this is outdated information; unfortunately, it is only slowly disappearing from the minds of the developer community. PostgreSQL has blossomed into a really good database. Of course, some things are different from the established top dogs, but that is ...
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