Re: postgresql vs mysql

["John Smith" <jayzee(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com>]

sounds like you aren't happy with one of the products your company offers at http://www.commandprompt.com/community/plphp/ - "plphp stands for procedural language php. the language has the php engine at its core and provides php scripting support for procedures and functions in postgresql. written by command prompt, inc. plphp is open source and licensed under the php license and the postgresql (bsd) license."

maybe you should also remove php 5.1.2 from http://planetpostgresql.org/- "hosting provided by the postgresql company, command prompt, inc".

our very own 
http://www.postgresql.org/ also uses php 5.2.0.

 yeah yeah tco blah blah blah. try stopping support for php and watch the use plummet.

and all this crap about php not having a firm design philosophy. hey, it works well and is very widely adopted. so maybe that's what a good language design should have- no firm set-in-stone straitjacket philosophy.

somebody else made a point about how jsp is better than php and then went onto prove the reverse. if you design a language that has such a high tco that common isps can't use it, it ain't good design- design doesn't work in isolation.

speaking of obfuscatingly bloated 90s code- there're quite a few jsp programmers who can't stomach getting kicked around by php, ajax and flash.

to tie this back to postgresql - want to grab the market share from mysql? fork your strategy - postgresql v oracle and postgresqlite v mysql.
jzs

On 2/22/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> John Smith wrote:
> > On 2/21/07, Lincoln Yeoh <
lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> wrote:
> >> MySQL: the PHP of databases.
> >
> > 'd appreciate if you stick to the subject.
> 
> Oops he probably should not have used MySQL because it is trademarked...
> 
> mysql: The PHP of databases
> 
> ;)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joshua D. Drake
> 
> > jzs