Re: Feedback from LinuxWorld, London

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:07:26PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> > > And of course they are right. ??Porting from MySQL to PostgreSQL is a
> > > problem, one which could only be solved by dumbing down PostgreSQL to
> > > accept many of MySQL's idiosyncracies, which isn't going to happen.
> >
> > It does make me think that we should try to adopt some more of MySQL's
> > idiosyntactics even if we don't fully adopt their idiosyncracies.
>
> I really don't agree that the chief problem with porting from MySQL is our
> failure to implement ISNULL() or ENUM. I don't even think that's in the
> top 10.
>
> The biggest issues are:
> 1, 2, 3, and 4) Lack of information, e.g. no "PostgreSQL for MySQL users"
> handbook.
> 5) Flakyness of data migration tools, which are largely unmaintained these
> days;
> 6) Lack of data abstraction in many OSS apps (this we can't fix).

Well, 1-4 and 6 are all tied together: lack of information (and in some
cases exposure to that info).
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