mysql vs. postgresql

[Trent Shipley]

Another item to take into consideration is market share.

Most of the time it is wiser to use the most popular application and not the 
best.

On Saturday 2003-06-14 08:45, Nick Estes wrote:
> I can't tell you much about mysql, but I have been using postgresql for a
> few years now.  On the last project I was on, we were using postgres to
> handle a database that grew by more than 1GB/day (I don't recall how many
> millions of rows that represented), and we were able to tune it to get the
> performance we needed on pretty standard servers.  It supports
> transactions, triggers, stored procedures, subqueries, and I have yet to
> come up with a join that it couldn't do (In my current project, we
> routinely use every sort of join except for a cross join to get our data
> out the way we like it).  If you're doing anything the IPs or network
> addresses, it also has some sweet special data types and operators for
> them.
>
> As for an unbiased comparison between postgres & mysql, your best bet
> might be to talk to people who are good at one or the other and make your
> own comparison...  Generally speaking, the people with the knowledge you
> seek are already fairly biased towards the one they use...
>
> 	--Nick
>
>
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