At 2007-12-26 20:15:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The PostgreSQL engine, to use it as the obvious counter-example, has > been hacked many times to support robust distributed systems that are > much larger than anything you see people doing with MySQL, being a > much more hackable system generally.
For what it's worth, I've hacked on both PostgreSQL and (earlier, and to a lesser extent) on MySQL, and the former is very much more pleasant to work with, in terms of source code quality. -- ams
