From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: Nigel J. Andrews <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:50:47 +0200
Message-ID: <200304171450.47247.barwick@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0304171227240.2396-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk>
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On Thursday 17 April 2003 13:35, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> I hate to join in this thread but...
me too, but I am suffering from a bout of MySQL :-(
(...)
> Just my own view. People say MySQL is easy and PostgreSQL is difficult to
> learn. I say PostgreSQL is easy and MySQL is difficult to learn.
Having had to use MySQL seriously for the first time for a long time, I am finding
it makes the easy things (appear) easy and the difficult things impossible.
For example, AUTO_INCREMENT is easy to set up and use, but
is a toy feature compared to real sequences...
> And as for it being maintenance free while a regular vacuum is something
> too difficult a concept for people to grasp. Well, what do these
> maintenance free MySQL folk do with the regular tasks that MySQL needs run?
This is what MySQL recommends:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Maintenance_regimen.html
How about repackaging VACUUM as a "database defragmentation
utility"? After all many many people have come to accept
disk defragmenters as an essential part of their OS ;-)
Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net
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