Re: MySQL versus Postgres

From: Sandeep Srinivasa <sss(at)clearsenses(dot)com>
To: "Michael A(dot) Peters" <mpeters(at)shastaherps(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL versus Postgres
Date: 2010-08-09 09:11:31
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Michael A. Peters
<mpeters(at)shastaherps(dot)org>wrote:
>
>
> I have 4x6 cards that I write the postgresql way of doing what I use to do
> with MySQL so that I can easily reference them when I need to.
>
> Should I sit down and read a book and go through the exercises?
> Yes. But I need to get stuff done now, and the cheat sheets I make for
> myself let me do just that.
>
> I am not a DBA - I am not even a web developer.
> I do both because I can't afford to hire them, and when I have used stuff
> created by them, very frequently their code is clearly crap and insecure
> and even I can see that, so unless I really want to pay the big bucks,
> it's better for me to do it myself and cheat sheets really help.
>

Could you share them ? Maybe put them up on the Postgres wiki.
The other similar resource that I see is :
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Converting_MySQL_to_PostgreSQL

-Sandeep

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