Re: Slashdot discussion

Once I ran into a guy who said that the postgres rpm was broken in Red Hat
5.2.  This was when I was first getting into postgres.  I spent some time
with it and realized that there were a number of things that had to be
done before it would work: creating the postgres users, initializing the
database, getting something into rc.d so it would boot up
automatically.  The RPM was not broken, but it was a pain to get postgres
running unless you spent some time reading about it.  My experience with
MySQL was less painful, although dealing with user permissions was more
complex.

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Travis Bauer | CS Grad Student | IU |www.cs.indiana.edu/~trbauer
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>
> Is anyone else noticing this: Everytime this sort of thing comes up a
> number of people invariably tell that they are using MySQL because it's
> easier to install, and that PostgreSQL is difficult ("a pain") to install.
>
> I've studied the MySQL installation instructions, and they don't strike me
> as inherently simpler. Is it only perception, or what can we do better?
>