On Nov 9, 2010, at 7:04 AM, Allan Kamau wrote: > have come up with a few > (possibly wrong) theories. They all sound reasonable. I think you missed an important one though: aggressive (and even sometimes outright false) promotion and sales by the company MySQL AB. Why I started looking at databases, you didn't have to look very hard to find PostgreSQL, but you did have to at least make a minimal effort. Also, my understanding is that if you go way back on the PostgreSQL timeline to versions 6 and earliest 7.x, it was a little shaky. (I started with 7.3 or 7.4, and it has been rock solid.) -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general