On 10/22/06,
Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> That implies malice. The people at OpenCRX apparently really
>> believe what they wrote.
> I believe they probably do believe it and it was probably driven by a
> complete lack of understanding of PostgreSQL.
> It doesn't have to be malicious for it to be FUD though.
The psychological reason seems clear enough: if they can dismiss
postgres as not being worthy of their time, it saves them a lot of
work in supporting another database. By this point I'd imagine that
their code is sufficiently mysql-centric that trying to have real
support for other databases would be a huge undertaking; ergo, there
will be great resistance to the idea that they should take postgres
seriously. It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, too, because
once the code is sufficiently tuned for mysql you can indeed show that
any other database sucks running it ...
regards, tom lane
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I think you're right, except that they don't recommend MySQL for production either; they seem happiest with MS SQL Server and Oracle, which seems a little odd for an open source project. If they haven't figured out how to get their app to work well with either MySQL or PostgreSQL, it seems a little disingenuous to claim they support them on the site's front page. Oh well. (shrug)
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