On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 21:57 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-07-31 18:23:17, Cliff Wells wrote: > > > My point is to stop FUD right at that comment. I don't doubt your > > research from "a few years ago", but ancient research is entirely > > irrelevant for making a decision *today*. > > That's exactly the reason why I added this information. It might not be for > you, but it is interesting for me (and might be for someone else) to see > that I get a different feedback now than I got a few years ago. It tells > something about the dynamic of the process that the mere status of today > doesn't tell.
Well, perhaps I misunderstood your intent. Sorry if I was short. > Besides, "claimed to have" and "seemed to have" are not really FUD inducing > terms :) Taken in a vacuum, they can certainly add to an overall negative impression. PostgreSQL, in the past, has certainly had some hurdles that made it a suboptimal choice for many people: performance and difficulty in installation and management, among other things (I've personally not had stability issues), lack of a native Win32 version, etc, have made it the runner up in deployment to MySQL. Today, that's all changed. PostgreSQL is comparable in performance to MySQL (although I expect each outperforms the other in certain areas), *easier* to install and maintain than MySQL, and its stability is outstanding. Release 8 also saw a native Windows version. For many reasons, MySQL seems to be on the reverse track, sacrificing performance, stability and ease of use in an attempt to catch up to PostgreSQL in features. Nevertheless, there remains rumors and myths that stem from those old days that cause many people to fear deploying PostgreSQL. This is part of the reason I'm always quick to jump on statements such as yours. I feel it's a disservice to the community to let those myths continue and perhaps dissuade others from discovering what is today *the* premier FOSS relational database. > Anyway, I appreciate you sharing your experience (which in that area > certainly is more than mine). I'm glad I was able to add to the pool of knowledge (or at least the mud puddle of anecdote). Cliff -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
