| From: | Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgre vs MySQL |
| Date: | 2008-03-12 18:20:37 |
| Message-ID: | 473538.81216.qm@web25806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com |
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--- Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
> If you look at the link I passed along before, you'll see the
> difference
> with MySQL is that they've been abusing their customers with minor
> point
> releases that try to add new features. Instead some of these
> introduce
> functional regressions, which often hang around for a whole long
> longer
> than two days after being noticed (this isn't even considering the
> delays
> before those fixes make their way back into the open source
> product, some
> only even go to paying customers).
This is something I noticed too when looking at MySQL and postgres.
The frequency of bug fixes and features, some coming over pretty
quickly from the community release of MySQL scared me.
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