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0 pointschrsig4y ago0 comments

I don't think he's wrong from a technical assessment, but most of the problem that he was experiencing was a social problem.

> More jarring were the people who insisted everything was OK (it seems most MySQL users and developers don't really use other databases)

i.e., the problem wasn't that the executor was bad, the problem was that everyone thought it was ok

And maybe they're not a people person, and trying to enlighten isn't what they signed up for -- all good -- I for one certainly don't want anyone working a job that they're unhappy with.

But the post is littered with putdowns --

> Coming to MySQL was like stepping into a parallel universe, where there were lots of people genuinely believing that MySQL was a state-of-the-art product. At the same time, I was attending orientation and told how the optimizer worked internally, and I genuinely needed shock pauses to take in how primitive nearly everything was

> Don't believe for a second that MariaDB is any better. Monty and his merry men left because they were unhappy about the new governance, not because they suddenly woke up one day and realized what a royal mess they had created in the code.

I guess I've just seen this attitude enough where it's boring. Shock pauses, very primitive, bad code. Got it. Moving on...

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mst4y ago

> Coming to MySQL was like stepping into a parallel universe, where there were lots of people genuinely believing that MySQL was a state-of-the-art product.

Spending years in an environment where a core component of your product was crippled by technical debt and you were surrounded by people who didn't -understand- how crippled it was does seem like a recipe for understandable bitterness.

People saying "yes, we know, but rewriting that isn't the business priority right now" is a different matter - that's often aggravating but the right call - but not even acknowledging the problem is unhealthy.

Note that I've made a couple other comments on this article that do their best to acknowledge how much more of a pain in the ass learning how to setup postgres replication is than mysql, because even though I prefer postgres most of the time it's still -true- and I don't see how hiding from that fact makes anything better for any user of anything.

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mst4y ago

> Coming to MySQL was like stepping into a parallel universe, where there were lots of people genuinely believing that MySQL was a state-of-the-art product.

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