Re: performace review

On 10/22/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> That implies malice. The people at OpenCRX apparently really
> >> believe what they wrote.
>
> > I believe they probably do believe it and it was probably driven by a
> > complete lack of understanding of PostgreSQL.
>
> > It doesn't have to be malicious for it to be FUD though.
>
> The psychological reason seems clear enough: if they can dismiss
> postgres as not being worthy of their time, it saves them a lot of
> work in supporting another database. By this point I'd imagine that
> their code is sufficiently mysql-centric that trying to have real
> support for other databases would be a huge undertaking; ergo, there
> will be great resistance to the idea that they should take postgres
> seriously. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, too, because
> once the code is sufficiently tuned for mysql you can indeed show that
> any other database sucks running it ...
>
> regards, tom lane
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I think you're right, except that they don't recommend MySQL for production
either; they seem happiest with MS SQL Server and Oracle, which seems a
little odd for an open source project. If they haven't figured out how to
get their app to work well with either MySQL or PostgreSQL, it seems a
little disingenuous to claim they support them on the site's front page. Oh
well. (shrug)

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Wes Sheldahl
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