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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo
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Msg-id 21682.1193978140@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo  (Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu>)
Responses Re: young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo  (Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu>)
Re: young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo  (paul rivers <rivers.paul@gmail.com>)
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Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.edu> writes:
> However, I'm not a DBA and only minimally know what's involved in doing
> the job, so I don't have "ammo" to defend (or agree?) with my friend
> when he says that "Postgres requires a DBA and MySQL doesn't so that's
> why they choose the latter.

He's full of it ... mysql is not any easier to run or tune.

            regards, tom lane

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