Re: [NF] MySQL > PostgreSQL was Joke (yes, it's computer-related!

There is no crystals ball for peering into the future, and some weight

must be given to the fact the outlook expressed about MySQL in the

article and links I provided, are coming from the point of view of

members of the PostgreSQL community, which could be a little slanted.

Still, the future of PostgreSQL looks bright to me, but I know Larry

Ellison see PostgreSQL as more of a threat to Oracle, than even MySQL;

because, the PostgreSQL community has been actively working on making

Oracle databases easily convertible to PostgreSQL databases.

You might look in the contrib directory of PostgreSQL to see if there

are any scripts that could be use to help move VFP databases to

PostgreSQL, but as Ted pointed out, you're likely to suffer some major

headache regardless of any scripts found. You will need to unpack the

PostgreSQL source code to get to the contrib directory, (eg script

contributed from various sources to do various things).

Regards,

LelandJ

Grigore Dolghin wrote:

> I am sorry, but I highly doubt MySQL will go away in near future.

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, KAM.covad

> <a_gmail_noSpam@kenmcginnis.com> wrote:

>> What we need is an easy migration to PostgreSQL from VFP. Unattended installation from CD and a replacement for INSERT INTO FROM NAME, GATHER, etc

>> Then it would be easier to migrate to something like Python if necessary some day.

>> *********************************

>> Below is Joshua Drake's take on Oracle purchasing Sun:

>> I see a large possibility of mass migration from MySQL by non web applications.

>> The obvious choice is PostgreSQL because of the BSD license and the maturity of the software.

>> In conclusion I expect that MySQL in two years likely won't exist except

>> on the most tertiary level. Most new projects will be developed in

>> either PostgreSQL, Firebird or one of the forks (MariaDB, Drizzle).

>> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---

>> multipart/alternative

>> text/plain (text body -- kept)

>> text/html

>> ---

[excessive quoting removed by server]