Re: PostgreSQL the right choice?

From: Jean-Michel POURE <jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: Vincent Stoessel <vincent(at)xaymaca(dot)com>, Marshall Spight <marshall(at)meetstheeye(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL the right choice?
Date: 2002-03-14 08:18:57
Message-ID: 200203140818.g2E8IvVc010297@www1.translationforge
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> That's not why you want to avoid MySQL. You want to avoid MySQL
> because it's underpowered. No transactions, no foreign keys, no subselects,
> etc. etc.

No Unicode, no large nested queries, no views, no triggers, no server-side
language : no PLpgSQL, no PLperl, etc... Poor ODBC support...

If your database is involved in a business, you need to migrate to
PostgreSQL. One day or another, MySQL limited features will hinder you.

/Jean-Michel

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