Re: [Hampshire] Sun to Buy MySQL

> > I've never used MySQL apart from once setting up a Bugzilla database;
> > I've always been in Oracle places. But the impression I'd picked up by
> > osmosis was that mySQL was widely considered by serious DB users as a
> > bit of a toy database
>
> That certainly used to be the case.
>
> At MySQL 4, they started to get their act together. MySQL 5 appears pretty
> good.
>
> > and that PostgreSQL was more 'featured' (in
> > terms of procedures/triggers, constraints, modelling capabilities...
> > generally more hardcore).

It's been a while since I used either - though it was a no-brainer to
use PostgreSQL over MySQL back then - stored procedures, triggers etc
made life so much more bearable - especially when tied to a web/access
front end. MySQL could never compete.