Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying

* David Costa <geeks(at)dotgeek(dot)org> wrote:

<snip>
> This is the point. People write faster and many developers don't
> understand the difference. I have seen a lot of PHP/MySQL application
> and yet I have to find one which runs
> faster on MySQL / slower on PostgreSQL from a "humanly noticeable"
> standpoint.

A serious comparison starts at the application and its use-cases,
i.e. how many data is stored, which datatypes, which kind of queries
are typically used, etc, etc.

Saying "A is faster than B" is just too simple.

cu
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