Re: performace review

["Wes Sheldahl" <wes(dot)sheldahl(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 10/22/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> That implies malice.  The people at OpenCRX apparently really
>> believe what they wrote.

> I believe they probably do believe it and it was probably driven by a
> complete lack of understanding of PostgreSQL.

> It doesn't have to be malicious for it to be FUD though.

The psychological reason seems clear enough: if they can dismiss
postgres as not being worthy of their time, it saves them a lot of
work in supporting another database.  By this point I'd imagine that
their code is sufficiently mysql-centric that trying to have real
support for other databases would be a huge undertaking; ergo, there
will be great resistance to the idea that they should take postgres
seriously.  It's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, too, because
once the code is sufficiently tuned for mysql you can indeed show that
any other database sucks running it ...

                        regards, tom lane

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I think you're right, except that they don't recommend MySQL for production either; they seem happiest with MS SQL Server and Oracle, which seems a little odd for an open source project. If they haven't figured out how to get their app to work well with either MySQL or PostgreSQL, it seems a little disingenuous to claim they support them on the site's front page. Oh well. (shrug)

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Wes Sheldahl
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