[Techtalk] Drop in replacement for Ingres Database?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Michelle Murrain wrote:
> 
> Postgres is supposed to be scalable, although I can't say that for sure, 
> since I've not implemented a database of nearly that size. I think it is 
> a fairly kick-ass dbms, and from what I've read on the postgres lists, 
> there are many folks using it for enterprise-sized databases. (I still 
> have yet to figure out why MySQL is more popular...)
> 

Probably because back in the 1996 timeframe Postgres was really, really 
slow, and rather painful to set up.

	-hpa