Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"

From: Jason Long <mailing(dot)list(at)supernovasoftware(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"
Date: 2008-12-01 23:45:15
Message-ID: 4934770B.1050201@supernovasoftware.com
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Jason Long
> <mailing(dot)list(at)supernovasoftware(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if I'm the only one who just saved a copy of that post for
>> reference in case it gets forcibly removed...
>>
>> Recently I was thinking about whether I had enough material to warrant a
>> 2008 update to "Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL"; who would have guessed
>> that Monty would do most of the research I was considering for me?
>>
>> --
>> * Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
>>
>> I quit using MySQL years ago when the default table type did not have
>> transactions and subqueries were not existent. The features I was looking
>> for were already in PostgreSQL for several versions.
>>
>> I am surprised to see such an honest post regarding MySQL.
>>
>> "Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion" to bad for them they did not go with
>> PostgreSQL. :)
>>
>
> It's free. The pgsql community, however, is priceless.
>
No doubt. The pgsql community rocks. In fact the support on this
mailing list is top notch and free. :)

Thank you a million times over to anyone that has give me advice here.
I have never gotten bad advice from this list.

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