From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum? |
Date: | 2003-04-18 00:21:22 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0304171956550.1617-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> I think Sean's idea is not to make it "just as easy as MySQL", it's to
> make it "the *same* as MySQL", for the benefit of those that refuse to
> learn differently. Them as won't adjust to "\dt" in place of "show
> tables" aren't likely to adjust to "select * from tables" either.
> Not even (maybe especially not) if it's arguably a standard.
"Same as MySQL" is impossible. We can pick here and there and add tons of
duplicate interfaces, play catch-up when they change them, but there's
always going to be a next feature that "would be *really* nice if
PostgreSQL could support it and it would surely draw *tons* of users to
PostgreSQL". Freely written MySQL code is basically completely
incompatible with PostgreSQL, so someone who needs to switch will have to
relearn anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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