On Dec 13, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Sir Gallantmon wrote:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III
<bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
I dunno. While I did push for the CMS project I work on to support PostgreSQL, I
personally think that Postgres is huge overkill for most things. It can also be a huge
PITA to set up. Whenever I have to test Postgres stuff, I usually grab EnterpriseDB's
distribution because I don't want to suffer hell setting it up on the various
platforms I have to test on.
As a DBA / Developer, I second this... obviously I can't complain because they are
both free. However the setup/configuration of postgreSQL compared to MySQL is basically
something easy, versus something where I don't have a clue what is going on, and there
are million ways to do it, and when I'm done I have no idea if I'm wide open to
the entire world, or as secure as on MySQL. There are a few other odd bits too, I mean I
really don't get the purpose of copying template1, what is that? etc etc etc... MySQL
is just more intuitive.