On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 21:45 -0700, Sasha Pachev wrote: > MySQL and Postrgres come from two different backgrounds. Postgres was > created as an academic product, while MySQL was created to solve a > real-life problem. Thus Posgres is more academically correct, while > MySQL will deviated from academic correctness to achieve better > performance and improve user experience. I suppose for a small > business academic correctness is not as important as actually getting > the job done.
The features you call academic I call essential. For a short and painful part of my career, I provided support for proprietary software. While Monty was still claiming "real developers don't need transactions" I was using "academic" features like triggers and such to bend the proprietary software to my will. MySQL has its current market share largely because of superior spin, not because Postgres was too "academic". -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
