Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Stupid question, but what does MySQL bring to the equation?  Why not just
use PostgreSQL in the first place?

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, CSN wrote:

> Look what somebody suggested!
>
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>
> If the worst happens and Oracle tries to squash
> InnoDB, there may already be such an alternative out
> there.
>
> I wonder what it would take to add (and optimize)
> Postgres storage engine support to MySQL? I don't know
> exactly how current versions of MySQL and Postgres
> maesure up performance-wise, but PgSQL seems to have
> made steady progress on performance improvements.
>
> Maybe this is a crazy idea, I don't know how
> technically or legally feasible it is, but I really
> like the idea of the two open-source communities
> uniting to battle Oracle.
>
> http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005490.html#comment-21233
>
>
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