Re: postgre vs MySQL

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:29:07AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:08:27 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > On 14/03/2008, rrahul <rahul(dot)rathi(at)cognizant(dot)com> wrote:
> > >> I see Mysql bosting for Google,Yahoo, Alcatel......
> > >> What about Postgres the list is not that impressive.
> >
> > > What then? Could it be marketing or the sad results of a
> > > avalanche effect? Geee, there's a thought.
> >
> > Marketing. Remember that MySQL AB have a strong financial
> > incentive to make organized efforts to locate and publicize
> > impressive-sounding users of MySQL. (I've heard rumors they even
> > give licensing discounts to companies that will let their names be
> > used like that.)
> >
> > There is no comparable effort happening on the Postgres side.
> > There are plenty of impressive users of PG too, but they don't have
> > to talk about it.
>
> I still find impressing that Google uses MySQL... I can guess why,

What makes you so sure Google don't use PostgreSQL *as well*?

(hint: we don't force them to tell you about it...)

//Magnus