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On Friday 14. March 2008, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> Years ago I played around with MySQL because that
> was what "everybody" was using. The problem was it did not do what I
> wanted and Postgres did.

That pretty much sums up my experiences too. Back in 2002 when I started 
fooling around with databases, there wasn't much of a competition, and 
I used MySQL as 'everybody else' did. But when I reached the point 
where issues like data integrity started to matter, I was advised to 
try PostgreSQL. I did, and haven't looked back. That was in 2005, and 
PostgreSQL was at version 7.4 something.

There are several reasons why MySQL have a lot more users than 
PostgreSQL, and in more than one way the parallel to Microsoft vs. *nix 
is striking. In the software world, getting a mediocre product on the 
market early may often be the key to success, and is commonly referred 
to as the "Worse Is Better" principle.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better>

Besides, a lot of database users don't really care for the database 
itself. Notably the object/relational mapping (ORM) camp, like Ruby On 
Rails, Django, and Catalyst, will consider the DBMS as a dumb storage 
engine. With that attitude, combined with the fact that most ORM 
frameworks are written mainly for MySQL, it's no wonder that PostgreSQL 
doesn't make many inroads here.
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