Re: Inquiry From Form [pgsql]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Luis Fresco Zens wrote:

Hi Luis,

PostgreSQL has been compared a few times against other database's, but
they are mostly out of date as of the 7.2 release. The comparison in
question that I feel offer a most objective view of all database's
involved in the comparison is from PHPBuilder (www.phpbuilder.com) the
full URL is:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3?page=1

PostgreSQL has no native port to windows as of yet, but if you use the
"Cygwin" package (http://www.cygwin.org) they have a PostgreSQL version
that has been compiled and tested for Windows.

> It is of my interest to know the characteristics Postgresql, as they
> are its advantages, if it is better than mysql and if they also have a
> document that compares these two data bases, if exists a version for
> Windows
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