From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T00:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Other ORMs [was: rails is awesome]


On Nov 24, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Dick Davies wrote:

> * Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> [1142 14:42]:
>
>> In practice, with a putative Oracle connector to AR, AR simply won't
>> work, because Oracle's metadata tables always return the data in
>> uppercase -- unless the table name is quoted.
>>
>> MySQL is a bad model -- it doesn't actually do much of anything 
>> right.\
>
> And you just found this out?
> Have you been living in a cave for the last 5 years? :)
>
> As a postgresql advocate (I started with pgsql over mysql because
> 	a) I wanted to learn SQL, not mySQL
> 	b) in those days mysql had a *lot* of missing features
> 	c) I'm perverse when it comes to choosing the underdog
> )
>

Other than the wonky SQL-MySQL compliance divide, are there specific 
features that you can get out of PostgreSQL, or are a lot easier to use 
in PostgreSQL, that might encourage a MySQL user like myself to change? 
I've seriously considered switching to PostgreSQL 'cause it has a good 
rep with people I trust, but every time I try to Google this topic I 
never find something that convinces me to switch.

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/