Posted by: Administrator
on February 19, 2004 01:58 AM
You do have a valid point. But Postgres can be picky and unforgiving. When you are learning, you need tog et the gist before learning the details. MySQL is the gist, Postgres is the details. I'd rather have something work incompletely rather than have some n00b beating his head against the wall.
Of course, things have changed a bit. Postgres no longer comes with a TOC in the INSTALL file, so it is much easier to get going with these days.
still Mysql has an edge there - on Windows at least. They have a installer. For postgres, you have it install cygwin and read a document to get it working there. Most web developer n00bs operate off windows boxen (my observation). So that is the biggest reason why I say MySQL to learn, Postgres to deploy. Note that 7.5 will have naitive windows binaires. Right now (in 7.4) only the client apps are cross platform, not the back-end.
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Re:Why un-learn bad habits?
Posted by: Administrator on February 19, 2004 01:58 AMOf course, things have changed a bit. Postgres no longer comes with a TOC in the INSTALL file, so it is much easier to get going with these days.
still Mysql has an edge there - on Windows at least. They have a installer. For postgres, you have it install cygwin and read a document to get it working there. Most web developer n00bs operate off windows boxen (my observation). So that is the biggest reason why I say MySQL to learn, Postgres to deploy. Note that 7.5 will have naitive windows binaires. Right now (in 7.4) only the client apps are cross platform, not the back-end.
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