Re: postgre vs MySQL

From: Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgre vs MySQL
Date: 2008-03-12 18:20:37
Message-ID: 473538.81216.qm@web25806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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--- Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> If you look at the link I passed along before, you'll see the
> difference
> with MySQL is that they've been abusing their customers with minor
> point
> releases that try to add new features. Instead some of these
> introduce
> functional regressions, which often hang around for a whole long
> longer
> than two days after being noticed (this isn't even considering the
> delays
> before those fixes make their way back into the open source
> product, some
> only even go to paying customers).

This is something I noticed too when looking at MySQL and postgres.
The frequency of bug fixes and features, some coming over pretty
quickly from the community release of MySQL scared me.

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