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From: Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:50:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Article on the future of Python
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Littlefield, Tyler
<tyler@tysdomain.com> wrote:
> I know this isn't the list for database discussions, but I've never gotten a
> decent answer. I don't know much about either, so I'm kind of curious why
> postgresql over mysql?

MySQL is an open-source PRODUCT owned by a for-profit company.

PostgreSQL is an open-source PROJECT and is unowned.

A lot of the major technical differences are outlined here:

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL



-- 
Greg Donald