Re: postgresql vs mysql

sounds like you aren't happy with one of the products your company offers at
http://www.commandprompt.com/community/plphp/ - "plphp stands for procedural
language php. the language has the php engine at its core and provides php
scripting support for procedures and functions in postgresql. written by
command prompt, inc. plphp is open source and licensed under the php license
and the postgresql (bsd) license."

maybe you should also remove php 5.1.2 from
http://planetpostgresql.org/-"hosting provided by the postgresql
company, command prompt, inc".

our very own http://www.postgresql.org/ also uses php 5.2.0.

yeah yeah tco blah blah blah. try stopping support for php and watch the use
plummet.

and all this crap about php not having a firm design philosophy. hey, it
works well and is very widely adopted. so maybe that's what a good language
design should have- no firm set-in-stone straitjacket philosophy.

somebody else made a point about how jsp is better than php and then went
onto prove the reverse. if you design a language that has such a high tco
that common isps can't use it, it ain't good design- design doesn't work in
isolation.

speaking of obfuscatingly bloated 90s code- there're quite a few jsp
programmers who can't stomach getting kicked around by php, ajax and flash.

to tie this back to postgresql - want to grab the market share from mysql?
fork your strategy - postgresql v oracle and postgresqlite v mysql.
jzs

On 2/22/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> John Smith wrote:
> > On 2/21/07, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> wrote:
> >> MySQL: the PHP of databases.
> >
> > 'd appreciate if you stick to the subject.
>
> Oops he probably should not have used MySQL because it is trademarked...
>
> mysql: The PHP of databases
>
> ;)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> > jzs