Re: drupal.org MySQL database issues

On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:15, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> > I won't argue for or against any team members doing item b. However,
> > Shashank noted that there *are* MySQL people doing this, and their effort
> > is paying off. Ergo, if some of our community wanted to expend effort in
> > "integration efforts" rather than "promotion efforts", Postgres would
> > gain additional traction in the web hosting community. That's what
> > Shashank is saying.
>
> Well, Shashank also said quite clearly that PostgreSQL is harder to
> use than MySQL in these cases. Harder how? I don't know, and I am
> surely not the person who can learn from experience, because nothing
> that I do puts me into any contact with making PostgreSQL play with
> plesk or any of that other stuff.
>

mysql's remote administration capabilities (especially wrt user management and
securing shared environments) are much easier (like you can actualy do it)
than postgresql's, which aiui are critical to plesk's web-based
administration suite.

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL