On Mar 5, 2014, at 6:37 AM, damien clochard wrote: > From databasefriends.co : > http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-database.html > > While the fact that PostgreSQL is more popular than Oracle doesn't > surprise me, I always thought MySQL was way ahead of us and their claim > to be "the most popular database" was hardly arguable... > > Turns out in this poll PostgreSQL has 41% and MySQL 15%. > > Of course this is just a poll on a database blog. But they had 900+ > answers so it's not completely meaningless :)
Having people like PostgreSQL is the first step towards growing the install base and it is definitely a feeling we should continue to help cultivate amongst database enthusiasts (after all, it's nice to be liked :-)
The question then becomes, how do we turn people like PostgreSQL into more production installs? That, of course, is the harder problem, but winning popularity contests is a good start towards getting more people to use PostgreSQL. Jonathan