X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEA2D1B560; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:29:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80420-07; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:29:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from houston.familyhealth.com.au (fhnet.arach.net.au [203.22.197.21]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24AAD1B47D; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:29:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from familyhealth.com.au (work-40.internal [192.168.0.40]) by houston.familyhealth.com.au (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3N6SvWL019821; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:28:57 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) Message-ID: <4088B944.1050007@familyhealth.com.au> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:35:48 +0800 From: Christopher Kings-Lynne User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Momjian Cc: PostgreSQL-development , PostgreSQL advocacy Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL? References: <200404230409.i3N49jC02890@candle.pha.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <200404230409.i3N49jC02890@candle.pha.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/133 X-Sequence-Number: 4105 > My question is, "What can we learn from MySQL?" I don't know there is > anything, but I think it makes sense to ask the question. > > Questions I have are: I have already told Bruce at length about the single most common complaint in the phpPgAdmin lists and in the IRC channel: the inability to change column types. I think we should listen to the punters on that one. Also, how about a new section in the manual: PostgreSQL for MySQL users and PostgreSQL for Oracle users? Chris