Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Mark Woodward <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?
Date: 2006-05-19 15:38:21
Message-ID: 20060519153821.GH17873@svana.org
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On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:58:11PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
> The reality is that MySQL is widely supported by some very, shall we say,
> "interesting" open source projects and using these products with
> PostgreSQL would be a plus.

The biggest headache I find with using postgres is that various GPL
licenced programs have trouble directly shipping postgresql support
because of our use of OpenSSL. Each and every one of those program
needs to add an exception to their licence for distributors to
distribute postgresql support.

I'm thinking particularly of FreeRadius but there are others. More than
once I thought while waiting for stuff to compile: if I'd chosen mysql
I'd be done by now...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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