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Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>, <cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-31T02:44:26Z
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> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:53, cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com wrote:
> > > Just a long standing curiosity?
> > e) Inertia.  MySQL got more popular way back when; the reasons
> may no longer
>
> f) Win32 Support.  I can download a setup.exe for mysql and have it up
> and running quickly on Windows.  I think that native Win32 support will
> go a long way toward making Postgres more "popular"

Speaking of that - wasn't someone going to branch the CVS with a whole lot
of Win32 support stuff?  Jan?

Chris