[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Richard wrote:
> 
> I don't remember the developers ignoring data corruption bugs even back 
> in the 6.x series

I never said they did, for the good reason that they didn't.  Just
trying to throw some historical perspective on what seems to be a rather
fanboy-ish debate.  Personally, my instincts were always to favour
Postgresql's much more correct design and I'd 100% agree with what Sean
said about many developers simply not realsing you can do more with a DB
than they do.  That said, in practice I have often found Postgresql a
royal pain in production use and the lack of decent replication has
swung the balance in favour of MySQL more than once in those situations
(that or frankly sucky filesystem performance from Postgresq for some
usage patterns).

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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