On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:42, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just got back from LinuxWorld in London and seeing this thread thought
> I would share my experience of the MySQL stand - if you are of a delicate
> dispostion, please look away now. I basically asked them straight up why I
> should use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL and was quite surprised by the
> result, mainly since it was not done on features but more on FUD. The basic
> message was this:
This is sad. In the past, the FUD efforts of MySQL AB were really quite
shameful. I had thought we had moved past that phase, with the MySQL
folks understanding that bad mouthing PostgreSQL is a losing proposition
in the long run, because people don't like being lied to, and get
especially upset when they've dedicated resources to a project only to
find out that the technology they paid for can't do the job, and the
technology they were told couldn't do the job can. Sigh.
> - MySQL is the most popular open source database, with over 6m
> "enterprise"
> installs, with a large company supporting it. PostgreSQL is run by a
> very
> small community of developers.
Actually, the same could be said of Samba and Apache. I'll take one Tom
Lane or Jan Wieck or (all the other postgresql hackers go here) over
1,000 MySQL hackers.
I wonder what kind of result we would get if we compared something like
"new lines of code per month / year" of the two projects....
>
> - PostgreSQL doesn't have row level locking.
Now that's rich.
> And this last comment really took the biscuit - I really hope that the none
> of the core team read this and decide to throw in the towel:
>
> "MySQL has the biggest collection of database experts... Open source
> people
> don't know how to write databases"
The saddest part is the people who hear this and believe it.