PostgreSQL has never been about marketing. It has only been about doing what they belive in and what they think would be the right thing. The developers of PostgreSQL has always been open about their shortcomings and their goals.

The focus of PostgreSQL has been quality and standards. What do they do when someone gave them something half finished or nonstandard? They will have a look, but drop it if it doesn’t follow the standards.

MySQL was working hard to sell their core idea: The world do not need data integrity.

I am a strong beliver in the GPL and the LGPL, but I choose honesty and integrity of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group over the lying and empty talk from the MySQL marketing department.

Is MySQL improving? I truly belive so. The changes of the releases don’t change much. Their growing commit to quality and standard do change a lot. MySQL used to be at the same level as Microsoft, but they have improved.

Binary every 6 months is rare because there used to be binary every month (check manual for 5.0 release dates before community/enterprise split)

Binary every 6 months is rare because of amount of bugs often fixed withing this time frame.

It _might_ be good for you. In fact I have some servers running binaries which is a year or more old but if you run into the bug which was fixed just after new community binary was released what will you do ? Wait for 6 months for next binary release to happen.

Nope you’d need to find a way to get stuff complied.

This is my point. Anyway “rare” and “frequent” are not absolute categories and I can call something rare and you can call it frequent and neither of us is wrong or right.