[KLUG Members] News: PostgreSQL 7.2 released

[bill]

Funny you would persist; sooner or later they'll force us to drop this thread.
Nevertheless, while the game lasts...

adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:

> >>>>As suspected, those who hold to the superiority of PostgreSQL over
> >>>>MySQL believe in myths.
> >>To create something as elegant, powerful, and robust as PostgreSQL was
> >>only possible due to the divinely inspired developers.
> >Mythologists put their faith in imperfect dieties.
>
> There are many levels and manners of imperfection,  imperfection does not negate
> superiority. Linux is imperfect, but clearly superior in many/most regards to
> several other platforms (I won't name names).   And any good mythologist would
> argue that it is the myths bieng in the hands of imperfect beings that causes
> imperfections in the myths themselves,  and they do not neccesarily reflect
> imperfections in the object(s) of the myth itself.

You claimed practical superiority on the basis of the mythology.  Yet your argument
renders those with mythology no better than those without.

A truly perfect being would not be limited by imperfect instruments, hence a perfect
product.  Anything less would have to be judged on its own merits, mythological
status would be no benefit.