New to LAMP

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 09:45, Aly S.P Dharshi wrote:
> I am not for a minute claiming that MySQL is not robust, all I am saying 
> - clarifying - is that PostgreSQL has way more features than does MySQL, 
> and its "Oracle like" to some extent as it is unique.

Historically, MySQL got its market share by being faster at the expense
of full-featured which is a good tradeoff for a mostly read-only web
server backend,  Meanwhile, PostgreSQL has gotten faster, MySQL
has more features, and web apps have gotten more complicated.  At this
point I'd probably pick PostgreSQL for a new project but stick to
MySQL for an existing package that was developed for it even if
compatibility for other databases has been tacked on.  The price
is right - you can run both at the same time.

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  Les Mikesell
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