Re:PostgreSQL 9.1 released
by masklinn on Monday September 12, 2011 @01:52PM
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> Why do not more people select Postgres? Is it comfort level with MySQL?
* Cheap (let alone free/ISP) hosting does not provide Postgres
* Most introductory tutorials, especially in the PHP world (but also Ruby I believe) use MySQL
* AMP packages/installers (is there any out there using Postgres as its db?) and a history of punitively hard installation
Following that, a combination of habit (MySQL works for me, why would I care?) and BLUB (what could it even bring to the table?), as well as drawbacks/issues whose fixes are recent (replication, master/slave, ...)
* Cheap (let alone free/ISP) hosting does not provide Postgres
* Most introductory tutorials, especially in the PHP world (but also Ruby I believe) use MySQL
* AMP packages/installers (is there any out there using Postgres as its db?) and a history of punitively hard installation
Following that, a combination of habit (MySQL works for me, why would I care?) and BLUB (what could it even bring to the table?), as well as drawbacks/issues whose fixes are recent (replication, master/slave, ...)