From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
Cc: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Gauthier, Dave" <dave(dot)gauthier(at)intel(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project |
Date: | 2009-12-20 20:41:50 |
Message-ID: | 4552.1261341710@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> writes:
> Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
>> Ten or so years ago MySQL was better than Postgres95, and it would have
>> been easy to justify using MySQL over Postgres95 (which was really slow
>> and had a fair number of bugs). But Postgresql is much better than MySQL
>> now. That's just my opinion of course.
> Really?!?
> MySQL development started in '94; and their first internal release was May 95.[1]
> At that time Postgres's SQL language support was new, but didn't the underlying
> database already have a half decade of history that surely was more mature
> than MySQL at the time?
What the underlying database had was a decade or so of development and use
for strictly academic purposes. This anecdote might help:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-06/msg00085.php
It was not until the current community started working on it, circa
1997, that there was any real emphasis on making it stable enough for
production use. And I would say that we didn't get to the point of
being really production-worthy until 2001 or so, by which time the
"Postgres sucks" meme was already pretty widely established. And
so was MySQL. We've been playing catchup in the public-perception
department ever since.
regards, tom lane
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