As far as I can tell, MySQL only has the advantage in developer- friendliness (at least at setup). Postgresql seems superior in terms of features, performance, and probably a few other things I'm not aware of. So even though development may be more difficult, you're probably getting a better net result out of using Postgresql.
On Apr 30, 6:19 pm, James Lindenbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for weighing in on this, we like to hear from you > and get a sense of how badly this is needed. > > We may offer MySQL in the future, but there are a few issues with it > that will make your lives miserable if we adopted it right now, so we > can't commit to it, and it definitely wouldn't be anytime soon. > > - James > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 8:42 AM, DBA wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > For me in particular it would be greatly benefical if Heroku supported > > MySql. This would make our migration processes (between hosts) much > > cleaner when a) adopting Heroku or b) leaving Heroku. > > > For the sake of an example, some Rails VPS hosts provide you with the > > option to run your database in a shared MySql cluster, which will do > > just fine for the begining of your application / product. > > > This will certainly be an issue that we will be looking into when > > adopting Heroku for our production env. > > > Best regards, > > DBA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
