From: | Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org>, cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL? |
Date: | 2002-07-29 16:49:29 |
Message-ID: | 3D457219.9FD697AD@mascari.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance
> > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started
> > to come up with anything.
>
> We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it
> ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.
...
> As for why PostgreSQL is less popular than MySQL, I think it is all
> momentum from 1996 when MySQL worked and we sometimes crashed. Looking
> forward, I don't know many people who choose MySQL _if_ they consider
> both PostgreSQL and MySQL, so the discussions people have over MySQL vs.
> PostgreSQL are valuable because they get people to consider MySQL
> alternatives, and once they do, they usually choose PostgreSQL.
>
> As for momentum, we still have a smaller userbase than MySQL, but we are
> increasing our userbase at a fast rate, perhaps faster than MySQL at
> this point.
Its all due to sort-order. If Oracle was open source MySQL would still
be more popular. ;-)
Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com
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