In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Bitmead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Graeme Merrall wrote: >> Without wanting to starta thread war I think postgres is >> great, but for many people the learning curve is too great and thus >> MySQL is a good introduction. > >In what way is mysql easier to learn? I think MySQL is easier to learn since there are a lot of DB features (transactions, views, sub-queries, etc) that are missing... so there's a lot less to learn... I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing though since people end up "hacking" there way around that sort of thing -- I know I did... There are a lot more third-party tools (someone mentioned that web admin tool) etc... which a lot of people like. I tend to stick to the command line and for the most part they are both the "same" in how easy/hard it is to learn them. I personally find postgres' docs to be much better if only because it is broken up into reasonable chunks... and I like the very explicit statements indicating whether this is a postgres extension etc... (yes, i know there is a section in mysql, but i don't think it's mentioned with the defination of a particular statement). -philip
