David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This may seem like a question unrelated to Postgresql, but I have recently > noticed a project that is having a discussion about how their code should > be developed. They are (unfortunately) developing first with MySQL, because > that is what they are familiar with (I assume), but that inevitably leads > to have to backfit changes when they later come to support other DBs (like > Postgresql). The best advice would be to test against both DBs continuously during development. Of course this requires that the developers buy into the idea that cross-database portability is worth some work ... it sounds like they have not yet figured out that MySQL is not the universe :-( regards, tom lane
