Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"

From: "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Jason Long" <mailing(dot)list(at)supernovasoftware(dot)com>, "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"
Date: 2008-12-08 05:54:25
Message-ID: 65937bea0812072154v71e1f698g4c788330fb710a2d@mail.gmail.com
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As I read it, he is supportive of the community process that PG follows; I
am not so sure he promotes Postgres though :)

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> Jason Long wrote:
> > Greg Smith wrote:
> > > I wonder if I'm the only one who just saved a copy of that post for
> > > reference in case it gets forcibly removed...
> > >
> > > Recently I was thinking about whether I had enough material to warrant
> > > a 2008 update to "Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL"; who would have
> > > guessed that Monty would do most of the research I was considering for
> > > me?
> > >
> > > --
> > > * Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore,
> MD
> > >
> > I quit using MySQL years ago when the default table type did not have
> > transactions and subqueries were not existent. The features I was
> > looking for were already in PostgreSQL for several versions.
> >
> > I am surprised to see such an honest post regarding MySQL.
>
> Monty is quite supportive of Postgres.
>
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