It's been rumoured that Dylan Paul Thurston said:
> I was curious about this last statement, and, having never used
> PostgreSQL, decided to test it. I downloaded PostgreSQL 7.0-beta5
> from the Debian distribution, installed, fixed the buggy install
> script, created a database, and created some tables, and ran a few
> relational (multi-table) queries. Elapsed time: 1 hour, much of which
> was fixing Debian's buggy install script. (I run the unstable version
> of Debian, so such things are expected.)
>
> What makes you say it's difficult to adminster? I can't believe MySQL
> could be much easier.
Any day now, there will be hoards of non-programmers using linux, and
if that isn't bad engough, they won't know what the word 'administer'
even means. Think 'could my mom/grandma do this'?
--linas
