The past week here in Wellington New Zealand has been quite an exciting one with LCA (Linux Conf AU) and DrupalSouth (Drupal conference for New Zealand) both taking place. We had a lot of speakers from around the world come to Wellington to present what they've been up to and talk about there passions in Open Source. In particular, I was able to meet up with Angie Byron (webchick) again who is the Drupal 7 branch maintainer and Selena Deckelmann and Josh Berkus from the PostgreSQL community. We all sat down and had lunch together and talked databases and PostgreSQL support for Drupal.

The great news that came from that was it sounds like support for PostgreSQL is about to get even better! The PostgreSQL contributor community is growing and we now also have support from the PostgreSQL community to help fix any bugs/integration issues with PHP and PostgreSQL.

As the release for Drupal 7 grows near, there is a growing importance to iron out all th creases in Drupal 7. This includes making PostgreSQL pass 100% of the simpletests, speeding the testing suite up on PostgreSQL so we can add a PostgreSQL testbed into Drupal's patch testing system and fixing schema support using Drupal's database prefix system.

I'm really excited about how awesome the support for PostgreSQL is going to be for Drupal 7 as PostgreSQL sits next to MySQL as a first class citizen in Drupal.