Re: weakness and strenghts of PG - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: weakness and strenghts of PG
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Msg-id 200902080530.n185UsF06270@momjian.us
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In response to Re: weakness and strenghts of PG  (Artacus <artacus@comcast.net>)
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Artacus wrote:
> I think the biggest weakness of Postgres is advocacy and integration. We
> have current versions of popular distributions shipping with ancient
> versions of Postgres. Or try finding a web host that runs the current
> version of Postgres. The other day I was going to do a small project in
> Ruby and Postgres and I spent a couple hours trying to get Ruby talking
> to Postgres on Windows. It's going to be impossible for Postgres to
> compete with MySQL while this continues.

True.  These areas are the last to catch up because they require years
of momentum;  they do catch up, but it takes time.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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