Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: fight

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:27:00PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> >> Greg Smith wrote:
> >>> After today's flurry of messages on this topic, I found myself wanting a
> >>> summary of what I'd learned about the current state of things before the
> >>> details slipped away. Somewhere in the middle of writing that, it
> >>> morphed into an advocacy piece, so I figured why not put it on the Wiki:
> >>>
> >>> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Why_PostgreSQL_instead_of_MySQL
> >>>
> >>> I may circle back to filling some of the stub sections myself eventually,
> >>> you're all encouraged to beat me to it.
> >> Greg,
> >> This piece is clearly aimed at end users and shouldn't be on the
> >> developers Wiki (which is only for internal project documentation/notes).
> >> Please move it over to techdocs, or refocus it as a guide for use by booth
> >> staff etc.
> >
> > As the developer wiki is already being used for a bunch of advocacy
> > efforts, I believe that it is more than acceptable.
>
> On the contrary -- I'm of the opinion that before this gets widespread,
> we should get advocacy a wiki somewhere else. Don't we have snappy
> powerful machines lacking services to run?

Having a powerful machine is the *easy* part. Maintaining it and
maintaining the contents of a wide-open wiki is not.

//Magnus