A Testimonial

From: Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: A Testimonial
Date: 2002-09-04 04:03:54
Message-ID: Pine.NEB.4.44.0209041301570.453-100000@angelic.cynic.net
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A friend of mine, Jacques Deguest <jack(at)deguest(dot)net>, recently asked me
for advice on a database server, and of course I recommended PostgreSQL.
(He'd been using MySQL up to this point.) Here's what he sent me a week
later:

I'd like to get back to what you previously wrote and say that
after having used a little bit Postgres and thoroughly read the
documentation, you under-stated the truth. MySQL is no match
to Postgres. I am blasted by the features, the power and the
profesionalism, not to mention all I was dreaming of: constraints,
checks, views, procedures, user functions, and full support of
Unicode + transcode from and to Unicode, among other things.

Having experienced both, I can tell you now that you don't realize
what you leave until you actually leave it.

My only regret is that I did not do the move much much earlier. My
fault.

He says we should feel free to put this up on the web site, if we like.

cjs
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