[ale] OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL

[Jim]

On Friday 07 February 2003 10:19 am, greg at turnstep.com wrote:
> > just curious to know which one is more popular?
>
> As someone stated, popularity is a horrible criteria. If it were
> in the least bit significant, we wouldn't be talking on this
> Linux list, as Windows is far more "popular." :)
>
> > I think MySQL is more popular based on its speed and the combination of
> > Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP). PostgreSQL has more functionality,
> > but MySQL is catching up. The latest release of MySQL will now do
> > sub-selects and the last several releases will do transactions.
>
> "Latest release" as in the *alpha* version, 4.1 ?!?

For most projects, this status would worry me. But MySQL has been extremely 
conservative in its release approach. I am currently using a 4.0 gamma 
release and it has no problems. The 4.0 series has actually been production 
ready since it was beta. But the MySQL developers take the most caurious 
approach possible. How many projects have a "gamma" release?
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