Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Leif B(dot) Kristensen" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
Date: 2006-11-09 09:40:32
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA358C7@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >I do not think we will be able to get the n00b developer to
> start with
> >PostgreSQL.
>
> Maybe not the n00b, but at least amateurs like me who have
> been using MySQL for some years, and are fed up with all the
> gotchas and coding around all the inherent weaknesses of that DBMS.

Why not n00bs? If we can point at why they chose My, perhaps we can do
something about it? (Sure, some things we'll never be able to do,
because it would break things for advanced developers, but we should
always be interested in lowering the bar for entry as long as it doesn't
have sideeffects)

//Magnus

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