Seriously, WTF?

[Peter Hickman]

Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Not that a good yarn isn't appreciated, but... Saying "MySQL 3.1
> couldn't handle my incredibly complex queries" is rather like saying
> "I switched from MS-DOS to Unix as the command line tool weren't up to
> what I needed" -- a historic anecdote, and a somewhat self-evident one
> at that. It doesn't really add anything to a modern "Which RDBMS?"
> discussion. (Maybe you didn't intend it to; just sayin').
>
> MySQL 5.1 is great product and I'm quite certain these days you
> wouldn't run into the problems you've talked about.
>   
>

I would rate your "I'm quite certain these days you wouldn't run into 
the problems you've talked about" to be of even less value that a 
"historic anecdote". At least he was telling us what actually happened, 
your contribution is pure fantasy and the DOS to Unix analogy doesn't 
hold well either. An SQL query is an SQL query wherever it is run and 
thus we can compare database engines.

Unless you have proof that 5.1 no longer exhibits the problems that he 
described then I will just assume you are a proMySQL / anti PG fanboy.

Opinions / Assholes. You know the drill.

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