Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, <cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
Date: 2002-07-31 02:44:26
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOMEGNCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:53, cbbrowne(at)cbbrowne(dot)com wrote:
> > > Just a long standing curiosity?
> > e) Inertia. MySQL got more popular way back when; the reasons
> may no longer
>
> f) Win32 Support. I can download a setup.exe for mysql and have it up
> and running quickly on Windows. I think that native Win32 support will
> go a long way toward making Postgres more "popular"

Speaking of that - wasn't someone going to branch the CVS with a whole lot
of Win32 support stuff? Jan?

Chris

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