From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-05-25T04:05:28+09:00
Subject: Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

On May 13, 2004, at 11:23 PM, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
>   *PostgreSQL*
> Free, loaded with features, not particularly fast, some extras
>
>   *MySQL*
> Free, not so loaded with features, very fast, some extras

FWIW, although I have no first-hand experience to support this, 
everything I've read recently says that:
(a) MySQL *used to be* much faster than PostgreSQL, but
(b) PostgreSQL is now just as fast (a bit faster in some areas, a bit 
slower in others)

I'll refrain from entering any other part of this 'discussion'. Just 
know that (again, from what I've been told) speed is *not* a reason to 
choose MySQL over PGSQL. (And personally, in a choice only between 
these two, there seem *to me* to be quite a sufficient number of 
reasons to choose PGSQL over MySQL.)


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