[Discuss] Rob Conery's critique of MySQL?

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

Mark,

In my opinion, the problem with MySQL is not that it locks tables.  It's 
that it has tables.

There is no such thing as a good RDBMS.  They're all bad.  They all 
suck.  They're all designed around a data storage and retrieval 
philosophy that was obsolete 30 years ago.  Tables are slow and they 
don't scale.  There are faster, more robust, more flexible and more 
scalable ways of storing and retrieving data than hyper-thyroidal 
spreadsheets.

Which makes me wonder why you're such a strong advocate of PostgreSQL 
over MySQL.  You wrote, "[i]f there are design deficiencies in a tool 
and a better designed tool, at the same price, is available why would 
you not choose the better designed tool?"  Why, in light of this, do you 
bother with relational databases?  PostgreSQL may suck less than MySQL 
but it still sucks.  Why are you not advocating a tool that doesn't suck?

-- 
Rich P.