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njharman on Nov 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Um, point of this announcement is you no longer have to install PostgreSQL!!! You can let Amazon do it for you, and scale it, back it up, maintain it etc.

mattmanser on Nov 14, 2013 [–]

I'm going to guess he's talking about a dev machine, which is where 90%+ of all DB installs take place.

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