Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

> If you want to get users to swtich to your software from your competitors, you 
> have to eliminate barriers, and a big one for any database is getting locked 
> into a specific one.  People aren't going to take the time to try switching 
> to postgresql if they can't easily make it back to thier former database. 
> It's one of the reasons why PostgreSQL's standards compliance is so 
> important; if you want to swtich to a new database, your best bet is to give 
> PostgreSQL a shot, because even if you don't like it, we're not going to try 
> and trap you into our software with bunches of non-standard knobs. Low 
> barrier to exit == low barrier to entry. 

Another reason why a tool to export from pgsql to mysql is just as 
important as the vice versa...

Chris