Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0

On Thursday 9. November 2006 10:40, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>Why not n00bs? If we can point at why they chose My, perhaps we can do
>something about it? (Sure, some things we'll never be able to do,
>because it would break things for advanced developers, but we should
>always be interested in lowering the bar for entry as long as it
> doesn't have sideeffects)

When you're a n00b, you don't have a clue about what the advanced
features of PostgreSQL can do for you. Basically, you choose MySQL
because that's what everybody else is using.

It's hardly more difficult to start using PostgreSQL than MySQL. The
installation part is mostly the same. Regarding the query language
itself, the differences are small enough that it doesn't matter much
from a learning point of view.

The big difference between the two is when you start doing "serious
work" that demands complex queries, ACID transactions, and custom
business logic. Then it actually becomes a whole lot easier to use
PostgreSQL than MySQL.
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