Semi OT: MySQL memory probs...

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:47 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:59:24PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > oh oh - holy war
> > 
> > ;-)
> 
> I doubt it. MySQL is developed almost exclusively for Linux, based on
> how Linux does things. It's no surprise that it runs best on Linux.
> 
> One is *supposed* to find the app that best suits your needs, then pick
> platform and hardware to run it properly. Supposing that MySQL was
> picked, then it should be run on Linux for best advantage.
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I suspect Sun will want to change that paradigm.

I never considered that aspect of MySQL - I don't believe that's true of
PostgreSQL.

Craig