Re: Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John Gage <jsmgage(at)numericable(dot)fr>
Cc: Rob Wultsch <wultsch(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Wang, Mary Y" <mary(dot)y(dot)wang(at)boeing(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql
Date: 2010-06-25 12:13:36
Message-ID: AANLkTinfweu7QNp1PCW8-udfxCV7YCEBhowGBaCGj6Xg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> This shows several things about the MySQL release philosophy, at least
> at the time.  1: Introducing performance enhancments without thorough
> testing in a production release is A-OK.  2: The fix may or may not
> actually work when it does get applied. and 3: It can take about a
> year to get that fix in place.
>
> Things may be a LOT better by now.  I'd certainly hope so.  But I have
> no real confidence or evidence of such an internal change.

Note that I have a lot of respect for the Drizzle team and what
they're doing with MySQL's code base. It seems like they "get it" as
a team, while MySQL never did.

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