| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Samantha Atkins <sjatkins(at)mac(dot)com>, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ? |
| Date: | 2010-07-29 19:11:26 |
| Message-ID: | 1280430686.8613.72.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com |
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On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Samantha Atkins <sjatkins(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
> > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the
> > OpenSource community?
>
> I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so
> many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql
> worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers'
> notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow
> and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original
> academically-oriented code to something of real production quality.
> We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever fully
> overcome that historical disadvantage.
Yeah that is a tough one. I would note though, if you move out of PHP,
our community grows astronomically.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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