Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Curt Sampson wrote: > > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance > > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started > > to come up with anything. > > We inherited inheritance from Berkeley. I doubt we would have added it > ourselves. It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.
... > As for why PostgreSQL is less popular than MySQL, I think it is all > momentum from 1996 when MySQL worked and we sometimes crashed. Looking > forward, I don't know many people who choose MySQL _if_ they consider > both PostgreSQL and MySQL, so the discussions people have over MySQL vs. > PostgreSQL are valuable because they get people to consider MySQL > alternatives, and once they do, they usually choose PostgreSQL. > > As for momentum, we still have a smaller userbase than MySQL, but we are > increasing our userbase at a fast rate, perhaps faster than MySQL at > this point. Its all due to sort-order. If Oracle was open source MySQL would still be more popular. ;-) Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
