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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Clay Shirky observation regarding MySQL
From:       Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog () svana ! org>
Date:       2005-02-28 22:00:32
Message-ID: 20050228220022.GD27668 () svana ! org
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:46:16PM -0600, bill@wadley.org wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Clay Shirky made a comment about MySQL that I thought the PostgreSQL
> community should be aware of:
> 
>    http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html
> 
> It's the section (mostly toward the bottom) entitled, "The Nature of
> Programming, and the Curious Case of MySQL". The whole article is, as
> normal, interesting and thought-provoking.

Interesting article, but w.r.t. to the MySQL statement, I read: If you
don't need any of the things that databases are good for (ACID,
transactions, triggers, views) then MySQL is an acceptable choice.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a
> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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