Re: MySQL versus Postgres

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
Cc: Martin Gainty <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL versus Postgres
Date: 2010-08-09 16:46:06
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On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:09 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote:
> It's not a requirement, just a reasonable default.

The actual requirement is:

Thou shall not use a privelaged user, e.g; Administrator or UID = 0.

Not only is that a reasonable default, MySQL is broken because of
theirs.

Joshua D. Drake

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