| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, Erich <hh(at)cyberpass(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgresql usage clip. |
| Date: | 2000-05-30 02:46:45 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005292346240.608-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote:
> "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> >
> > > >What an insulting article! They say that PostgreSQL is "equal" in
> > > >efficiency to MS SQL. The rest of it was pretty good, though.
> > >
> > > Actually it said efficacy - more like effectiveness. You can be efficient
> > > but not effective and vice versa.
> >
> > Efficient but not effective... you mean like MySQL? :-P
>
> This has "fire" written all over it....
>
> But as somebody who uses both, in large scale (er.. global) enterprise
> level data management, each has it's place. MySQL has much faster
> simple table scans, but it cannot handle the complex structures that
> Pgsql can. Pgsql has scads of additional features, but is limited
> in platform support compared to mysql.
Huh? You caught my eye on this one ... what platform are we missing? :(
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