Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?
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Msg-id 1280430686.8613.72.camel@jd-desktop.iso-8859-1.charter.com
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In response to Re: Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 14:57 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Samantha Atkins <sjatkins@mac.com> writes:
> > Why is MySQL so much more popular right now, especially in the
> > OpenSource community?
>
> I think it's strictly historical.  The mysql bias you see in so
> many web tools was established in the late 90s, a time when mysql
> worked reasonably well (at least according to the mysql developers'
> notion of "reasonably well") whereas postgres was still pretty slow
> and buggy.  It took us a long time to get from the original
> academically-oriented code to something of real production quality.
> We're definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever fully
> overcome that historical disadvantage.

Yeah that is a tough one. I would note though, if you move out of PHP,
our community grows astronomically.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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