Re: [pgsql-advocacy] interesting PHP/MySQL thread - Mailing list pgsql-general

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Interesting thread (php-dev subj: removing bundled libmysql):
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=105621066832429&w=2

Hoo boy.  Did you catch the part about

>> and the MySQL 3.2.23
>> library can't connect to MySQL 4.1 servers, rendering it broken.

Backwards compatibility must not be a consideration over there...

> We need to use this opportunity to encourage PHP folks to switch to
> PostgreSQL.

Indeed.  What can we do exactly?

            regards, tom lane