Tom Lane wrote:
> Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 16:14, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> why not use pgsql-chat, which isn't being used at all right now ... ?
>
> > I have the impression that these "Postgres vs MySQL vs XXX" stuff is
> > regularly started up by newcomers to this list. So wherever you will
> > decide to move it, it will still pop up here - the new-comers will know
> > nothing about being elsewhere, except it is called something very-very
> > suggestive, like "postgres-mysql-compare".
> > Even then, it will pop up here too, and it carries the risk of heated
> > answers even from long term subscribers. Could this be really moderated
> > ?
> > If there is to be a new list, please name it very-very suggestively,
> > otherwise it has no point.
>
> I think this analysis is dead-on. Pointing to pgsql-chat won't
> accomplish anything.
I always felt advocacy was the right place for database comparisons
directed to increasing market share.
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