Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment on Mysql

2020-06-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2020-Jun-03, Martin Mueller wrote: > On the topic of what other databases do better: I much prefer Postgres to > Mysql because it has better string functions and better as well as very > courteous error messages. But MySQL has one feature that sometimes makes me > want to return it: it store

Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment on Mysql

2020-06-03 Thread Michael Nolan
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 5:21 PM Martin Mueller < martinmuel...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > On the topic of what other databases do better: I much prefer Postgres to > Mysql because it has better string functions and better as well as very > courteous error messages. > Martin, I definitely sympathiz

Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment on Mysql

2020-06-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 6/3/20 3:21 PM, Martin Mueller wrote: On the topic of what other databases do better: I much prefer Postgres to Mysql because it has better string functions and better as well as very courteous error messages. But MySQL has one feature that sometimes makes me want to return it: it stores the

Re: Oracle vs. PostgreSQL - a comment on Mysql

2020-06-03 Thread Martin Mueller
On the topic of what other databases do better: I much prefer Postgres to Mysql because it has better string functions and better as well as very courteous error messages. But MySQL has one feature that sometimes makes me want to return it: it stores the most important metadata about tables in a