Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mladen Gogala Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql Subject: Re: MySQL Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <9q77l9Fq3aU1@mid.individual.net> <9q90cbFclkU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1329590405 2333 eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLfAlMDmXFv4TewamcDIKBxdYNnzP+paSw0ng0zA640cY7AmlP/KipaH0GbRA8 (18 Feb 2012 18:40:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBACAEBMCVkH81Dsr+I3SHRWWHE3QMRvf2uc9OipjwpZBxFyqgrBPmFKD7qXtK2QcGdRAy Cancel-Lock: sha1:POqpfu3Iq6Uo9V8H/0KTsJy5gPg= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBACAEBMCVhH81TsT+I3QH42KFE3QMpsOlpebCHKl6Xt+3YUVmHNTaUc1dMip5Gh8hbBE7 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.postgresql:313 On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:56:16 +0100, Hans Castorp wrote: > You are *not* a potential Postgres user. Actually, at one time I was. I was even very enthusiastic about Postgres, I even persuaded my employer at the time to host Postgres meetings. We even had Bruce Momjian and Robert Haas at some of those meetings. Now, you could call me a disappointed and disillusioned Postgres user. I still haven't given up all hope, but in order for me to start using it again, I would require some commitment to implementing hints. I don't really care if some former pastry bakers will have to eat their words back because of it. In my humble opinion former pastry bakers shouldn't be steering a relational database anyway. Unfortunately, it looks like that is not going to happen, PostgreSQL will remain a loser product. Stonebraker lost against Oracle once, it looks like that will happen again. Shame, there was a good potential here, if only wasn't for a bunch of incompetent yahoos, writing things like this: http://tinyurl.com/68gu822 A database with this guy in the steering committee cannot make any inroads, that's for sure. Not only did MySQL trump Postgres over and over again, the same feat will likely be repeated by MongoDB. It seems that Michael Stonebraker hasn't learned anything from the past experiences. -- http://mgogala.byethost5.com