Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Duncan Garland wrote:
> >> How do you position Postgres against MySQL 5.0?
> >
> > We don't.  We produce useful database software, and people use it
> > or they don't.
>
> That really isn't a helpful answer Peter. On paper, MySQL 5.0 looks
> like a very healthy competitor to PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL
> 5.0 is still very immature in the feature set that (on paper)
> compares very well with PostgreSQL. This individual obviously does
> not.

The question was how we position Postgres, not how it compares to MySQL.
We haven't ever positioned Postgres.  None of our development or
release decisions are concerned with positioning.

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Peter Eisentraut
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