On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Thomas Corell wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Note that if someone wants us to run PostgreSQL, they should put their code where their mouth is and adapt the software to run with it. :)
Adapting the software IMHO is not the main problem, what about all those sysop's depending on e.g. mysql syntax? And I think there are more open questions.
Well, if we were to try to run the software on postgresql it would obviously be very important to adapt the software to work on postgresql. :)
However it's less clear that it would be particularly advantageous to use postgresql.
That's why I keep hoping that the people who pop up and say "hey, this would be a lot better with postgresql" can quantify the claim by making the software work with postgresql and actually comparing performance with the same operations on the same dataset on the same machine -- things we can't do until the software is able to run with postgresql.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)