| From: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL |
| Date: | 2003-11-11 06:23:16 |
| Message-ID: | 200311111153.16252.shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com |
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On Monday 10 November 2003 23:32, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> PLEASE run your response by the list before sending it to them. The
> MySQL vs. PostgreSQL issue is a hot topic and we really don't want to make
> a bad impression on people outside our community.
>
> Also, I think it benefits us more to focus on our features rather than
> MySQL's shortcomings. MySQL *is* the appropriate database for some things,
> and we owe it to potential users to give them a fair evaluation of when
> PostgreSQL is appropriate, and when MySQL is.
>
> The MySQL team now has the general policy of doing the same thing (they
> didn't always, I know, but things have changed), and we can hardly afford
> to be seen as less fair than them.
OK, this was result of some efforts on advocacy, IIRC..:-)
http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
Shridhar
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