Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres

Tim Perdue wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Adida wrote:
> 
> ...useless rant about all MySQL users being stupid inept programmers
> deleted....
> 
> > PHP folks have a bias, too: PHP was built with MySQL in mind, it even ships
> > with MySQL drivers (and not Postgres). PHP's mediocre connection pooling
> > limits Postgres performance.
> 
> Well the point of this article is obviously in relation to PHP. Yes,
> Rasmus Lerdorf himself uses MySQL and I'm sure Jan would say he's a
> "wannabee", not a "real developer".

Rather he is probably a _web_ developer and not a _database_ developer, as 
most developers with DB background abhor lack of transactions, as you have 
surely noticed by now, and would not use MySQL fro R/W access ;)

> Yes I'm sure that PHP was designed to make Postgres look bad. All
> benchmarks are designed to make postgres look bad. All web designers
> build everything in just that special way that makes postgres look bad,
> and they all do it because they're inept and stupid,

Or just irresponsible. 

That's how most websites grow -
 at first no writes - MySQL is great (a filesystem with SQL interface
performance-wize)
 then some writes in real time, when popularity grows bad things start to
happen.
 then delayed writes a la Slashdot to keep the performance and integrity of
database.

> unlike the small crowd of postgres users.

That could be part of the problem ;)

SQL is a complex beast and a programmer experienced in procedural languages 
takes some time to learn to use it effectively. Until then he just tries to 
use his C/Pascal/java/whatever knowledge and simple selects - and this is
where MySQL excels.

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Hannu