Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Matthew Tedder <matthew(at)tedder(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-07-28 23:08:53
Message-ID: 20020729113653.8CA53475AA1@postgresql.org
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Just a long standing curiosity?

For most web sites MySQL seems to work fine, but overall PostgreSQL offers
more capabilites so why build upon a limited base such as MySQL?

Does anyone here have any idea as to why so many people select MySQL when
both systems are open sourced?

Matthew

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