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We need objective comparisons to promote PostgreSQL.


You need more than that. Comparisons and bullet points and blog posts aren't the problem here, there's already billions of those.

What's needed is more "PostgreSQL for SQL Server People" type conversion material and tools to help facilitate this process. NaviCat is not an acceptable solution here.

Years ago when I switched to MySQL it was because it was easy to get going, a lot of community support around the product. You have questions, you get answers almost immediately.

Postgres is a much more sophisticated offering and still needs to file down a lot of the sharp edges on their toolset. The psql command line tool for one is very bewildering to the uninitiated and has two conflicting syntaxes, one for the backslash commands and one for actual queries. This is not unlike other SQL shells, but MySQL, while highly non-standard, does have the advantage of a unified interface here.




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