Re: [HACKERS] Are we losing momentum?

Tom Lane writes:

> I think Sean's idea is not to make it "just as easy as MySQL", it's to
> make it "the *same* as MySQL", for the benefit of those that refuse to
> learn differently. Them as won't adjust to "\dt" in place of "show
> tables" aren't likely to adjust to "select * from tables" either.
> Not even (maybe especially not) if it's arguably a standard.

"Same as MySQL" is impossible. We can pick here and there and add tons of
duplicate interfaces, play catch-up when they change them, but there's
always going to be a next feature that "would be *really* nice if
PostgreSQL could support it and it would surely draw *tons* of users to
PostgreSQL". Freely written MySQL code is basically completely
incompatible with PostgreSQL, so someone who needs to switch will have to
relearn anyway.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net