It's the Postgres Age
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It's the Postgres Age
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Re: It's the Postgres Age
#2Nothing like exaggeration in headlines taken to the extreme.
MySQL is fine. Even if you accepted the premise that Postgres had become the better piece of software, MySQL has a massive installed user base and every opportunity to catch up and improve.
Re: It's the Postgres Age
#3I know MySQL.
Re: It's the Postgres Age
#4Nothing like exaggeration in headlines taken to the extreme. MySQL is fine. Even if you accepted the premise that Postgres had become the better piece of software, MySQL has a massive installed user base and every opportunity to catch up and improve.
It took what, five years to fix the glaring design flaw where you couldn't use NOW() as the default in a datetime field. Seriously, this was just fixed a few weeks ago after years of outrage over it, and it was fixed by an outsider: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27645 Now we all get to wait for our hosts to update their MySQL installation, once the fix makes it into a release. How many more years will that be?
If it has any significant deficit, MySQL is not going to "catch up." I'm not necessarily agreeing with the article, but don't fool yourself.
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#5Horrible article. The same guys that pimped NoSQL three years ago now just hype something else. I have nothing against Postgres (I use it myself) but inflammatory articles like this are of use to no one other than their authors.
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#6Worse is better. MySQL's terribleness is its feature; it means you stop and think before putting business logic in the database, writing a stored procedure, or joining on five tables. While it's a worse database, the /systems/ I've seen built on MySQL are all better than those built on "real" databases.
Re: It's the Postgres Age
#7MySQL support is fantastic - they offer optimization along with troubleshooting - and respond immediately. Also, they are relatively cheap as far as support goes.
Re: It's the Postgres Age
#8Horrible article. The same guys that pimped NoSQL three years ago now just hype something else. I have nothing against Postgres (I use it myself) but inflammatory articles like this are of use to no one other than their authors.
agreed
Re: It's the Postgres Age
#9Nothing like exaggeration in headlines taken to the extreme. MySQL is fine. Even if you accepted the premise that Postgres had become the better piece of software, MySQL has a massive installed user base and every opportunity to catch up and improve.
Agreed. And now that Oracle and MariahDB are competing, we're actually seeing a lot of progress on getting new versions and features out the door.
A great example of this is MariahDB just provided a module to handle geospatial data in the database as well.
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#10The article's arguments aren't that convincing. Geospatial indexing? That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine. If anything, the grocery list of crap mentioned by this article makes me DOUBT Postgres's focus on being an efficient database.
The other problem is that every host offers MySQL. Not so with Postgres.