On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 12:51 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Just for the hell of it I looked at the popcon stats for debian > installs (see below). It tells me the following: > > - Something like half the people who install mysql-server (any version) > never use it. People who install PostgreSQL are (slightly) more likely > to actually use it. > > - For mysql, users of the client are approximatly twice the amount that > use the server. For postgres, the client and server count is about the > same. This one is curious, don't know what to make of it.
When you install Debian from scratch, the tasksel list offers you the chance to install database packages. If you select that, it installs postgresql server rather than mysql, which may help the statistics in Debian. The postgresql server package depends on postgresql-client. I think that the only people to install postgresql-client without the server would be those with multiple machines communicating with a server and a number of those might install the server by mistake. The ratio of nearly 6 to 4 seems quite reasonable. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
