From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Duncan Garland <duncan(dot)garland(at)ntlworld(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 |
Date: | 2006-10-21 16:55:09 |
Message-ID: | 453A50ED.2070907@commandprompt.com |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Duncan Garland wrote:
>>>> How do you position Postgres against MySQL 5.0?
>>> We don't. We produce useful database software, and people use it
>>> or they don't.
>> That really isn't a helpful answer Peter. On paper, MySQL 5.0 looks
>> like a very healthy competitor to PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL
>> 5.0 is still very immature in the feature set that (on paper)
>> compares very well with PostgreSQL. This individual obviously does
>> not.
>
> The question was how we position Postgres, not how it compares to MySQL.
> We haven't ever positioned Postgres. None of our development or
> release decisions are concerned with positioning.
I would disagree... I would bet many developers are very much looking at
the competition when they are determining what features to work on. It
may not be a conscious thought of, "We must have this because MySQL does
or Oracle does" but it definitely plays a part...
I would further argue that many of the features being pushed for 8.3,
recursive queries, bitmap indexes, rollup/group by, updateable queries
are the direct result of positioning either against Oracle/MSSQL or
MySQL pending feature sets. (Although more toward Oracle/MSSQL certainly).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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