Re: more anti-postgresql FUD

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:50:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >> * MySQL is used as a primary development platform.
>
> > Another good reason.
>
> Actually that's *the* reason --- it's always going to be hard for
> Postgres to look good for an application that's been
> designed/optimized for MySQL.  The application has already made
> whatever compromises it had to for that platform, and dropping it
> onto a different DB won't magically undo them.
>
> Some days I think database independence is a myth.

I do, too, but only on the weekdays ending in 'y' ;)

Cheers,
D
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