On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > 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. Yeah that is a tough one. I would note though, if you move out of PHP, our community grows astronomically. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
