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I used to swear by MySQL (Score:3, Insightful)

by suso ( 153703 ) writes:

but now I'm using Postgres and am lovin it. It's one of those things when you didn't know what the hell you were doing before you knew about it.

Postgres is where it is at.
- It's PostgreSQL, please (Score:2)
  
  by SuperBanana ( 662181 ) writes:
  
  Postgres is where it is at.
  Postgres was the revision of Ingres; PostgreSQL was Postgres with SQL. Minor oversimplification, but good enough.
  It's been PostgreSQL for years- please call it by its proper name :-)
  - Re:It's PostgreSQL, please (Score:0)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    "Postgres was the revision of Ingres; PostgreSQL was Postgres with SQL. Minor oversimplification, but good enough. It's been PostgreSQL for years- please call it by its proper name :-)"
    
    Postgres it is! I will now make everyone I know call it Postgres and tell every non techie I know that they are using Postgres databases.
    - If someone said..... (Score:1)
      
      by zogger ( 617870 ) writes: on Wednesday October 06, 2004 @06:52PM (#10455020) Homepage Journal
      
      .... "PostgreSQL" to me really fast, I'd probably say "Geshundheit"......
      
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I used to swear by MySQL (Score:3, Insightful)

It's PostgreSQL, please (Score:2)

Re:It's PostgreSQL, please (Score:0)

If someone said..... (Score:1)