>Look I love postgresql, but reality is reality. The database itself is
>great, the documentation is pretty good, but a lot of the other things about
>postgresql (like the website) need a lot of work. Postgresql gives the
>impression of being a second rate disorganized product if you were to just
>go by the website alone.
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Isn't that true of just about any OSS project? Heck, Linux doesn't even
have a website ;).
MySQL is not an OSS project, it is an OSS product with a commercial
company backing
it. There is a big difference.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
> Now of course that is not true, but perception
>governs people's actions and behavior. If people think postgresql is
>difficult, guess what, for all intents and purposes it is. If that
>perception leads them to use mysql instead of postgresql, then at some point
>you have to face the fact that it's the perceptions that are really
>important, regardless of the facts.
>
>Chris
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>>Honestly PG is easy to get up and running on several distributions. On
>>RH, service postgres start willgive you a running Postgres (it will do an
>>initdb if needed). Now just create a user and get going.
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>>PG is only hard because people _think_ it's going to be hard. Or because
>>it used to be hard. However, it hasn't been hard for a long time.
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