X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Received: from spampd.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC514758F1 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:55:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lubitsch.akademie.de (ns.akademie.de [62.165.4.3]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2812475458 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:55:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [62.165.4.177] (helo=kidman.akademie1.de) by lubitsch.akademie.de with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1968vo-0005fg-00; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:56:00 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ian Barwick To: "Nigel J. Andrews" , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:50:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200304171450.47247.barwick@gmx.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_10,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Archive-Number: 200304/656 X-Sequence-Number: 38146 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=20 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 ru= n? 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 ;-)=20 Ian Barwick barwick@gmx.net