Re: Re: Why PostgreSQL is not that popular as MySQL?

On 29 Nov 2000, Ronald Cole wrote:

> Raymond Chui <raymond.chui@noaa.gov> writes:
> > I am just start look at PostgreSQL for our Redhat Linux.
> > I am wonder why most of people choose MySQL in Linux
> > world rather than PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL has 15 years
> > history (I never know that before) which is much longer
> > than MySQL. Also PostgreSQL supports a lot of things
> > which MySQL has not support yet.
>
> Postgres, yes.  PostgreSQL, no.  PostgreSQL was a new project with
> Postgres95 as a starting point.  Postgres95 was an attempt to put an
> SQL front-end on Postgres.  AFAIK, most all of the Postgres code was
> jettisoned early on for performance reasons.  That makes PostgreSQL
> roughly five years old, code-wise.
>
> I still have a Postgres95 tree in CVS before the PostgreSQL fork to
> prove it, too!  ;)

so do we :)  way way back when:

RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/HISTORY,v
Working file: HISTORY
head: 1.79
branch:
locks: strict
access list:
symbolic names:
        REL7_0_PATCHES: 1.70.0.2
        REL7_0: 1.70
        REL6_5_PATCHES: 1.52.0.2
        REL6_5: 1.52
        REL6_4: 1.44.0.2
        release-6-3: 1.33
        SUPPORT: 1.1.1.1
        PG95-DIST: 1.1.1

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Postgres95 1.02                 Thu Aug  1 18:00:00 EDT 1996
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Source code maintainenance and development
 * worldwide team of volunteers
 * the source tree now in CVS at ftp.ki.net
 * developers mailing list - pg95-dev@ki.net
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yeesh ... now *that* is old ... 4.5 years and growing ...