Ron Mayer <rm_pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? What the underlying database had was a decade or so of development and use for strictly academic purposes. This anecdote might help: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-06/msg00085.php It was not until the current community started working on it, circa 1997, that there was any real emphasis on making it stable enough for production use. And I would say that we didn't get to the point of being really production-worthy until 2001 or so, by which time the "Postgres sucks" meme was already pretty widely established. And so was MySQL. We've been playing catchup in the public-perception department ever since. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
