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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Conrad <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:04:46 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 15:12, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > You know, that's kind of the point of all things related to MySQL.
> > "It's better than nothing."  PostgreSQL doesn't do things because "it's
> > better than nothing."  <snip>
> > (Same as how MySQL guesses the result of a modulo operation, and gets it
> > wrong.  They don't care and you can read that on the manual.  In
> > Postgres, this is a bug.)
> >
> 
> Hey Alvaro, 
> are you familiar with "worse is better" philosphy in software development and 
> how that leads to adoption rates? It basically states that simplicity is the 
> ultimate design goal over correctness, consitency, and completness.  Because 
> of this more people are able to quickly adopt a technology, which allows the 
> incorrectness/inconsistency/incompletness to be address by new comers and 
> gradually bring the software up to higher standards.   I was reading some 
> blogs the other day that applied this to PHP's adoption rate over Java and 
> .net, but your comment made me think this really applies to my$ql and 
> postgresql as well. check out 
> http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1121502&postcount=2 for a bit 
> more. 

Interesting analysis.

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