mysql 4.x and fedoracore2

Thomas Zehetbauer thomasz at hostmaster.org
Wed Oct 27 16:39:23 UTC 2004


On Mit, 2004-10-27 at 10:22 -0600, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> Personally I believe that there are more features in Postgres, they are 
> technically different (unless you define what you mean by that :)). There is a 
> conformance to the ACID principles in Postgres which are currently being 
> developed or getting there slowly with MySQL or are just simply not there.

Yes, postgresql is the worst case of 'featuritis' I have seen in the
open source world. You get data types for IP adresses and geometric
figures but you need to wait for a sequential scan if you select the max
()/min()/count() from a column, even if there is an index to use.

Tom

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