| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> |
| Cc: | 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 20:19:11 |
| Message-ID: | 4B2E86BF.1050705@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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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?
I thought the main justification for MySQL back then is that they had
better Win95 support (and a quality control philosophy that more matched
the old pre-NT windows that favored time-to-market over correctness).
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