Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Jason Long
<mailing.list@supernovasoftware.com> wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>
> I wonder if I'm the only one who just saved a copy of that post for
> reference in case it gets forcibly removed...
>
> Recently I was thinking about whether I had enough material to warrant a
> 2008 update to "Why PostgreSQL instead of MySQL"; who would have guessed
> that Monty would do most of the research I was considering for me?
>
> --
> * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
>
> I quit using MySQL years ago when the default table type did not have
> transactions and subqueries were not existent.  The features I was looking
> for were already in PostgreSQL for several versions.
>
> I am surprised to see such an honest post regarding MySQL.
>
> "Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion" to bad for them they did not go with
> PostgreSQL.  :)

It's free.  The pgsql community, however, is priceless.