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Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
Cc: Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-02T11:10:47Z
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On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 05:39, Curt Sampson wrote:
> Because SQL99 is non-relational in many ways, so I guess they
> figured making it non-relational in one more way can't hurt.
> 
> I mean come on, this is a language which started out not even
> relationally complete!

Could you point me to some pure relational languages ?

Preferrably not pure academic at the same time ;)

BTW, what other parts of SQL do you consider non-relational (and thus
candidates for dropping) ?

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Hannu