Re: postgresql vs mysql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Chris
Subject Re: postgresql vs mysql
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In response to Re: postgresql vs mysql  ("Chad Wagner" <chad.wagner@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: postgresql vs mysql  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Chad Wagner wrote:
> On 2/20/07, *gustavo halperin* <ggh.develop@gmail.com
> <mailto:ggh.develop@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I  have a friend that ask me why postgresql is better than mysql.
>     I personally prefer posgresql, but she need to give in her work 3 or 4
>     strong reasons for that. I mean not to much technical reasons. Can you
>     give help me please ?
>
>
> How about the fact that MySQL accepts the following query as legal:
>
> SELECT foo, bar, COUNT(*)
> FROM baz
> GROUP BY foo
>
> And produces, naturally, an unexpected result instead of an error.
> Totally annoying, I don't know if it was ever fixed.  It seems that
> MySQL's parser is generally weak at syntax validation in it's default
> configuration.

That one actually comes in handy ;) Especially in older versions (4.0)
that don't support subselects..

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