Re: How to convince people to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?
Darren Duncan <[email protected]>
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On 2017-06-15 2:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 06/15/2017 12:15 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: >> On 2017-06-15 11:59 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> 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. >> >> That's apples and oranges. ORMs are for making custom applications to >> talk with a DBMS. A GUI is for a human to talk directly to a DBMS, such >> as for debugging what their application actually changed or saw, or >> doing administration etc. Having a good GUI is important. -- Darren Duncan > > Why do people always thing apples and oranges can't be compared? > They're both fruit, they're both round, they both have vitamin C. The reason I said "apples and oranges" is because your comment made it look like you were saying ORMs and GUIs were interchangeable, like if one doesn't have a GUI then an ORM can be used instead, whereas a more reasonable comparison is that a command shell like psql is an alternative to a GUI, because both are for direct user interaction with the database without having to write code first. -- Darren Duncan -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy