Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@xxxxxxx> writes: > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the > OpenSource community? I think it's strictly historical. The mysql bias you see in so many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers' notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow and buggy. It took us a long time to get from the original academically-oriented code to something of real production quality. We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever fully overcome that historical disadvantage. 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
