Re: ANN: Rekall V2.4.0

From: John Dean <john(at)totalrekall(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Johan Wehtje <joweht(at)tpgi(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ANN: Rekall V2.4.0
Date: 2005-10-18 11:20:45
Message-ID: 6.1.2.0.2.20051018113035.027e3a70@mail.totalrekall.co.uk
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Hi Tom

At 03:32 18/10/2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>Johan Wehtje <joweht(at)tpgi(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > I was more disappointed in the fact that when the Wizard is used to
> > build a Database connection to Postgresql the information box text
> > informs the user that the "Postgresql is not as fast as MySql, but does
> > have support for transactions and Stored Procedures".
>
> > Given that from the 7 series onwards the relative speeds of MySql and
> > Postgresql is not something that has a clear and definitive answer, I
> > would suggest that the Connection Wizard text is misleading at best.
>
>And I suppose the MySQL boys will be objecting to the second part of the
>sentence as soon as MySQL 5.0 goes gold ;-)

I agree with you, as I have already mentioned to Johan. I believe the user
already knows which database engine he/she is going to use and more than
likely he/she is fully aware of the pros and cons, so there is no need to
point them out

> regards, tom lane

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Regards
John Dean,
co-author of Rekall,
the only alternative
to MS Access

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