If you'd like to improve MediaWiki's support for PostgreSQL, consider submitting a talk about it to PG Day:
http://pgday.consistentstate.com/node/5
PG-Day Denver 2011 will be held on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at the Auraria Campus near downtown Denver, Colorado, USA. PG-Day Denver will include talks that will benefit PostgreSQL users, database administrators, developers, and executives. The call for papers is open till August 31, but it's better to submit earlier.
The MediaWiki Virtual Library http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MVL has now a new book (under construction):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MST Developer's Style Guide
The pages are also part of the big MediaWiki Developer's Guide
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MDG
Tom
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