Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA

Marc G. Fournier writes:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> > > Quite frankly, I want the *core* to be built around a complete
> > > implementation...if someone is really hot on ORBit, and wants to add in
> > > compatibility code so that it will work with ORBit, so bit it...but I want
> > > the *core* to be 2.2 clean/compliant...and mico is the only ORB out there
> > > at this point in time that will allow that...
> >
> > I still think eventually PostgreSQL win run on ORBit on most systems. :-)
>
> Appendum...why do you use PostgreSQL? Speed or features? :)
>
> ORBit is to MICO as MSQL is to POstgreSQL :)
>

Ok, but I think the other sense of the question is even more interesting:

why do people use MSQL instead of PostgreSQL?

My point is that while pg beats msql hands down on features, speed is
important enough to a lot of users that they choose msql instead. If we
had more speed, we would have even more success than we do now.

-dg

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