Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> Curt Sampson wrote:
> > I'm still waiting to find out just what advantage table inheritance
> > offers. I've asked a couple of times here, and nobody has even started
> > to come up with anything.
> 
> We inherited inheritance from Berkeley.  I doubt we would have added it
> ourselves.  It causes too much complexity in other parts of the system.

...

> As for why PostgreSQL is less popular than MySQL, I think it is all
> momentum from 1996 when MySQL worked and we sometimes crashed.  Looking
> forward, I don't know many people who choose MySQL _if_ they consider
> both PostgreSQL and MySQL, so the discussions people have over MySQL vs.
> PostgreSQL are valuable because they get people to consider MySQL
> alternatives, and once they do, they usually choose PostgreSQL.
> 
> As for momentum, we still have a smaller userbase than MySQL, but we are
> increasing our userbase at a fast rate, perhaps faster than MySQL at
> this point.

Its all due to sort-order. If Oracle was open source MySQL would still
be more popular. ;-)

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com