Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Philippe Schmid <phschmid(at)cadinfo(dot)ch>
Subject: Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?
Date: 2006-05-19 00:14:59
Message-ID: 200605182015.00260.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:17, Philippe Schmid wrote:
> As a users of both Postgres and MySQL, I would also say, better add
> missing features to Postgres than chasing some specialties that are
> going to vanish anyway in MySQL.
> I miss :
> - a core full-text indexing engine. Tsearch2 is nice, but not
> included. This is a feature often used by PHP/MySQL packages.

We also need better support for non C locales in tsearch. As I was porting
mysql's sakila sample database I was reminded just how painful it is when you
initdb in a non-supported locale (which is probably the default on the
majority of distros out there)

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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