Re: How to convince people to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?

On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Josh Berkus wrote:

> On 06/14/2017 02:58 PM, Stephen Cook wrote:
> 
> >> I suggest you try a different tack: ask the developers what they
> >> *specifically* don't like about PostgreSQL.  It's quite possible that
> >> their issues are things you could easily help with -- like installing
> >> PostgreSQL on their laptops, or permissions.  If you remove their main
> >> reasons to gripe, then things will be a lot easier.
> >>
> 
> Do developers use GUIs for databases these days?  I thought they did
> everything through ORMs.  See, that's the kind of thing one needs to ask
> them.

I know ops people who prefer web GUIs to manage their data. There is no
app do it for them, and they are mostly UNIX shell programmers.

Marcin Cieślak