Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Rodrigo E(dot) De León Plicet <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?
Date: 2011-12-09 13:03:08
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJ5jQ=uMPhKx0TPfKEOU2cswfoG2Pha=pF9SSaTnvC1rQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet
> <rdeleonp(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> http://www.dbms2.com/2011/11/23/hope-for-a-new-postgresql-era/
>>
>> Some of the points mentioned:
>> - MySQL is narrowing the gap, but PostgreSQL is still ahead of MySQL
>>  in some ways.  (Database extensibility if nothing else.)
>
> There is simply no comparing mysql's backend programming features with
> those of postgres.  Postgres is a development platform in a box, mysql
> is not.

A key point, I think, but not just as a comparison against other RDBMS.

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