From: Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: 14 Apr 2003 20:13:55 -0700
Message-ID: <bxyistgsb9o.fsf@datafix.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2703.1050364467@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200304142237.h3EMbvv13720@candle.pha.pa.us>
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> But I do sometimes worry that we are losing the mindshare
Tom> war. We might be growing fine, but if we're growing slower
Tom> than MySQL is, we've got a problem. I was just in the local
This is probably true. Once people get exposed to PostgreSQL then
there is a fair chance of forming an opinion. Today one of the
undergraduates in my class was telling me how after hacking pgsql
internals he has such a different impression of the two systems
(earlier he'd built a site with MySQL going by the "works for
slashdot" philosophy).
--
Peace, at last ?
Sailesh
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh
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