Take your own advice and keep it professional. Drop the part about whining losers and people might not take this as a troll. ;-) Sorry to everyone, but I just couldn't resist answering this. Cheers, Craig > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Hallstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:05 PM > To: PostgreSQL General > Subject: [GENERAL] Why is there so much MySQL bashing??? > > > Hi all - > I'm not here to start a war, but it seems to me that there is a > fairly large amount of MySQL bashing in this group. Why? What's the > point? It seems to me that if PostgreSQL wants an enemy to fight it > should be Microsoft SQLServer and Oracle. It seems to me that it's > PostgreSQL/MySQL vs those two. Why fight amongst ourselves? > > Now, if there is something truly lacking in MySQL, that completely > different because this stuff ends up in the archives and people make > decisions based off what they find there. However, it needs > to be kept > professional, don't you think? > > What are my impressions going to be of PostgreSQL (and now > Great Bridge > since their name will pop up as well) if I search for "mysql vs > postgresql" and see a lot of mysql bashing posts in thse > lists? I'm going > to think you all are a bunch of whining losers who can't fathom the > possibility that there might be good (or even better) alternatives out > there. > > > That can't be good for PostgreSQL, can it? > > -philip > >
