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Re: Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

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Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> Ten or so years ago MySQL was better than Postgres95, and it would have
> been easy to justify using MySQL over Postgres95 (which was really slow
> and had a fair number of bugs). But Postgresql is much better than MySQL
> now. That's just my opinion of course.

Really?!?

MySQL development started in '94; and their first internal release was May 95.[1]

At that time Postgres's SQL language support was new, but didn't the underlying
database already have a half decade of history that surely was more mature
than MySQL at the time?

I thought the main justification for MySQL back then is that they had
better Win95 support (and a quality control philosophy that more matched
the old pre-NT windows that favored time-to-market over correctness).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#cite_note-21


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