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From Vitaliy N. Kravchenko
Subject Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?
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In response to Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?  (Matthew Tedder <matthew@tedder.com>)
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Matthew Tedder <matthew@tedder.com> wrote:
> For most web sites MySQL seems to work fine, but overall PostgreSQL offers 
> more capabilites so why build upon a limited base such as MySQL?
> Does anyone here have any idea as to why so many people select MySQL when 
> both systems are open sourced?
Some people working on win32 platforms, and mysql easy install on win32.
Just for starting on use databases in soft.

PgSQL easy-install on *unix-systems (mostly..:)), but on win32 ..it's hard..:(

IMHO.

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