[ic] postgres vs mysql

Ragen Herrington tncybervol@home.com
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:02:23 -0600


It certainly does not appear to be a product on the way out.

Ragen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jesseman" <chris@sitemajic.net>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] postgres vs mysql


> Monty promised a release of MaxSql=mysql with transaction support.
> http://www.mysql.com/news/article-28.html
> 
> besides, mysql is stable and "Fun to use..." 
> (http://www.mysql.com/information/index.html)
> 
> -CJ
> Quoting Ragen Herrington <tncybervol@home.com>:
> 
> > After reading the PostgreSQL docs again (link below) I realized the
> > author
> > may be writing in a biased tone.  Check it out.....
> > 
> > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/PostgreSQL-HOWTO-4.html
> > 
> > Ragen
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Heins" <mikeh@minivend.com>
> > To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 9:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ic] postgres vs mysql
> > 
> > 
> > > Quoting Ragen Herrington (tncybervol@home.com):
> > > > Troy,
> > > >
> > > > If I remember correctly, mySQL is a duplicated effort related to
> > postgres.
> > > > That being said, mySQL will be discontinued at some point in time.
> > > > Hopefully this tidbit will help your decision.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I certainly haven't heard this. MySQL is alive and kicking, and there
> > > are certainly no plans to discontinue it that I have heard.
> > >
> > > I wonder if you were thinking of miniSQL, which has been struggling.
> > > Supposedly it revived as of Jan 1 (see http://www.hughes.com.au).
> > >
> > > I was down on Postgres for speed reasons at one time, but V7.0x
> > > has *greatly* improved speed, to the point where some people say
> > > it is faster than MySQL. I wouldn't have believed that until I tried
> > > 7.0x just yesterday. The several seconds it used to take to import
> > > only a few hundred records (the country table) now are not
> > appreciably
> > > diffrent from the blink of an eye MySQL takes.
> > >
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