| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Rodrigo E(dot) De León Plicet <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era? |
| Date: | 2011-12-09 13:03:08 |
| Message-ID: | CA+U5nMJ5jQ=uMPhKx0TPfKEOU2cswfoG2Pha=pF9SSaTnvC1rQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet
> <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> http://www.dbms2.com/2011/11/23/hope-for-a-new-postgresql-era/
>>
>> Some of the points mentioned:
>> - MySQL is narrowing the gap, but PostgreSQL is still ahead of MySQL
>> in some ways. (Database extensibility if nothing else.)
>
> There is simply no comparing mysql's backend programming features with
> those of postgres. Postgres is a development platform in a box, mysql
> is not.
A key point, I think, but not just as a comparison against other RDBMS.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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