Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@mac.com> writes:
> Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the
> OpenSource community?
I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so
many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql
worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers'
notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow
and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original
academically-oriented code to something of real production quality.
We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever fully
overcome that historical disadvantage.
regards, tom lane