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  • Your experiences I find astonishing. As a PostgreSQL user going back some 5 years, and recently asked to port my company's application to MySQL, I find MySQL to be unbelievably opaque. Funnily, I could mirror your complaints almost exactly:
    • Why is MySQL so hard to set up? Admittedly, I'm compiling from source in our environment, but PostgreSQL just compiles and installs. MySQL takes 3 times as long to compile, and installs a load of crap like tests that I'm not interested in, even when using the clie
    • MySQL is WAY easier to install - configure, make, make install - no creating and su'ing to a special user to create the databases.

      "Why is the command line interface so appalingly bad? The help is non-existent on every instance I've connected to. psql at least gives you \h."

      myql allows you to switch, and show databases, list and describe tables and best of all quit is quit and help is help. Table names and fields are tab completed. Postgresql is grumpy and unhelpful compared. The source command allows you to
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      @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
      print reverse @JAPH;
      • "myql allows you to switch, and show databases, list and describe tables and best of all quit is quit and help is help."

        Just like psql, apart from quit/help.

        "Table names and fields are tab completed."

        Maybe in your version. For me, psql completes, mysql doesn't. And it gets ^W wrong to add insult to injury.

        "The source command allows you to run sql scripts without exiting and piping."

        In psql it's spelled \i. Try \? for some help on the psql commands.

        "The SQL Prompt is far easier and more powerf

        • I have used pgAdmin on other people's machines, it's slower, ugly and contains less features than the equivilent tools for Oracle (Toad/Tora), MySQL (mysql-query-browser, mysq-admin) and SQL Server. PGaccess runs but lacks most of the features I'd want.

          Trying Squirrel, I found that it can't find the jdbc classes for anything and is slow, ugly and clunky - but thats Java's fault rather than Postgres :)
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          @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
          print reverse @JAPH;
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