Re: Why PostgreSQL is not that popular as MySQL?

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!  ;)

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