On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> * MySQL is used as a primary development platform.
>
> > Another good reason.
>
> Actually that's *the* reason --- it's always going to be hard for
> Postgres to look good for an application that's been designed/optimized
> for MySQL. The application has already made whatever compromises it
> had to for that platform, and dropping it onto a different DB won't
> magically undo them.
>
> Some days I think database independence is a myth.
If it's not even possible to get trustworthy, duplicate renderings of
XHTML/CSS on popular browsers without tweaks, we can truly never expect
something as utopian as that.
Sadly.
Andy
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