| From: | Andrew Kelly <akelly(at)corisweb(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: more anti-postgresql FUD |
| Date: | 2006-10-11 08:22:34 |
| Message-ID: | 1160554954.2641.6.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> >> * MySQL is used as a primary development platform.
>
> > Another good reason.
>
> Actually that's *the* reason --- it's always going to be hard for
> Postgres to look good for an application that's been designed/optimized
> for MySQL. The application has already made whatever compromises it
> had to for that platform, and dropping it onto a different DB won't
> magically undo them.
>
> Some days I think database independence is a myth.
If it's not even possible to get trustworthy, duplicate renderings of
XHTML/CSS on popular browsers without tweaks, we can truly never expect
something as utopian as that.
Sadly.
Andy
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