On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Walker wrote:
Does the developer offer any hard evidence for his statement? I mean like benchmark tests and a side by side list of features?
Mark, No. And I've read this excuse from them before when I asked about a port. The application is written in php and they use adobp (or something like that) which is supposed to be backend-agnostic, but apparently still favors MySQL over PostgreSQL. No one in that glue project seems interested in fixing what's not working, either.
My impression is that Mysql is set up very narrowly for a typical ISP offering LAMP and not much else. Once you start going into corporate installations on private servers, you run into problems with Mysql. Some of the problems I've have personally are lack of anything that comes close to pgadmin and really arcane setup/maintenance.
I remember the days when LAMP stood for Linux, Apache, Middleware, and PostgreSQL. :-) It's been co-opted, I guess. At last year's at O'Reilly's OSCON here in Portland I had this discussion with the booth babes sales droids from Sugar-CRM. They said that they heard numerous requests for postgres support but the decision-makers in the company were not interested in accommodating that segment of the market. So this is not an isolated instance. At the risk of going off the topic (but I won't respond on the list to any such posts), this attitude does not surprise me. It continues to disappoint me, but I've seen too many poorly managed companies to be surprised any longer. Across many industries I wonder why some companies manage to have survived as long as they have. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Accelerator(TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
