Re: drupal.org MySQL database issues

Shashank Tripathi wrote:
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> The MySQL team has personally paid a great deal of attention to make
> sure their software works with Cpanel and Plesk. Therein lies the
> "marketing" savvy that tge PgSQL group sits and watches in confused awe.

Uhmmm no. Nobody is confused. You seem to think we are competing with
MySQL. We are no more competing with MySQL than Oracle is.

MySQL is fine for relatively small, high velocity sites where data
integrity and high write concurrency is not an issue.

PostgreSQL is all about high velocity write concurrency and data
integrity. I can not count how many people have switched *from* MySQL to
PostgreSQL because they outgrow MySQL.

Except in maybe DW space, you generally will not outgrow PostgreSQL.

Lastly, what people like you who make these comments seem to forget is
that MySQL is a company, not a community, not an open source project.

It is a commercial open source *product*, developed by a heavily funded
private company (that is about to go public).

That is just a tad different than PostgreSQL.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> [Ok, it's not quite that stark, but it pains me to see a superlative
> product take it on the chin just because it isn't too clever with making
> itself usable. Make it easy--and it certainly can be easier than it is
> today--and people will train themselves.]
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