On 07/22/2012 02:34 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Greg Rundelett wrote:
A default installation of MySQL is dangerously too
flexible to be trusted with enterprise data.
At #185 on the Fortune 500 list, I'm thinking that my current employer's
systems probably contain what can be called "enterprise data". And it's true
that I'm not going to run this data center with a default installation of
MySQL; it's already amply tweaked-out based on past experiences at a company
roughly 1/500th the size (but with a much-busier and more complex database).
I'd love to go back and propose PostgreSQL as an alternative--it's not too
late, the place up until July 2012 is an Oracle shop--but there are other
criteria like our ability to hire expertise, whether the backup and failover
strategies are robust, etc. I have a unique opportunity to influence a key
decision in a "green-field" situation at a very large company and I'd love to
have more arguments than just "the defaults can't be trusted" or "sloppy
programmers could cause more trouble with this tool" than some other.
It doesn't matter, really! Every tool you use will have issues. If you
show up the guy who chose f, there will come a day when you look like an
idiot for replacing it with PostgreSQL.
That being said, my personal opinion is that *anyone* who chooses MySQL
without a clear and present "Only MySQL will with our apps" requirement,
is not much of a DBA and a terrible engineer.
I've been using PostgreSQL for over 15 years and it is one of those
tools that I keep in my belt because it is just amazing at how easy it
makes otherwise difficult tasks. Every year it keeps getting better. I
have been on far too many projects where some guy chooses MySQL because
everyone else does and stuff that would be trivial in PostgreSQL are a
nightmare. On the flip side, I have yet to see something that would be
easy with MySQL that isn't equally as easy using PostgreSQL.
As I tell my son, "You have to own your opinions. Merely accepting
someone else's opinion isn't good enough. Believe what you want, but
make sure you understand what you believe and why."
-rich
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