--- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Glyn Astill wrote:
> > 
> > --- Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > If you look at the link I passed along before, you'll see the
> > > difference 
> > > with MySQL is that they've been abusing their customers with
> minor
> > > point 
> > > releases that try to add new features.  Instead some of these
> > > introduce 
> > > functional regressions, which often hang around for a whole
> long
> > > longer 
> > > than two days after being noticed (this isn't even considering
> the
> > > delays 
> > > before those fixes make their way back into the open source
> > > product, some 
> > > only even go to paying customers).
> > 
> > This is something I noticed too when looking at MySQL and
> postgres.
> > The frequency of bug fixes and features, some coming over pretty
> > quickly from the community release of MySQL scared me.
> 
> MySQL has incentives to _not_ make their community release
> production-quality.
> 

I mean features being pulled into the enterprise release that haven't
had much time to be tested even in the community release.


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