Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-08-03 11:32:10
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.44.0208032031050.517-100000@angelic.cynic.net
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On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:15, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > On 2 Aug 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >
> > > Could you brief me why do they discourage a syntactical frontent to a
> > > feature that is trivially implemented ?
> >
> > What's the point of adding it? It's just one more thing to learn.
>
> You don't have to learn it if you don't want to. But once you do, you
> have a higher level way of expressing a whole class of models.

Perhaps this is the problem. I disagree that it's a "higher" level.

cjs
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