From: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
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To: | David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL? |
Date: | 2004-04-23 08:52:32 |
Message-ID: | 20040423085232.GA9124@zf.jcu.cz |
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:05:21PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
> So in my opinion, as long as the general awareness about RDBMS (on what
> tasks/responsibilities it should do, what features it generally has to
> have, etc) is low, people will be looking at MySQL as "good enough" and
> will not be motivated to look around for something better. As a
> comparison, I'm always amazed by people who use Windows 95/98/Me. They
> find it normal/"good enough" that the system crashes every now and then,
> has to be rebooted every few hours (or every time they install
> something). They don't know of anything better.
Agree. People don't know that an RDBMS can be more better.
A lot of users think speed is the most important thing. And they check
the performance of SQL server by "time mysql -e "SELECT..." but they
don't know something about concurrency or locking.
BTW, is the current MySQL target (replication, transactions, ..etc)
what typical MySQL users expect? I think they will lost users who love
classic, fast and simple MySQL. The trade with advanced SQL servers is
pretty full. I don't understand why MySQL developers want to leave
their current possition and want to fight with PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2
.. etc.
Karel
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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
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