On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> * MySQL is used as a primary development platform. > > > Another good reason. > > Actually that's *the* reason --- it's always going to be hard for > Postgres to look good for an application that's been designed/optimized > for MySQL. The application has already made whatever compromises it > had to for that platform, and dropping it onto a different DB won't > magically undo them. > > Some days I think database independence is a myth. If it's not even possible to get trustworthy, duplicate renderings of XHTML/CSS on popular browsers without tweaks, we can truly never expect something as utopian as that. Sadly. Andy
