Re: First Step to Major Use: Integrated Full-Text

On 12/5/2005 7:05 PM, C. Filipe Medeiros wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> All good points, however I want to point out this isn't my personal
> issue, since I host my own websites. My only problem is that if I
> license my software out to people, and they have the option of using
> Postgres or MySQL, they're going to support MySQL because more hosts

Point 1:

Unless you license "your software" under GPL (or some other free open
source license), there is a difference in price tag between MySQL and
PostgreSQL.

Point 2:

As someone else already mentioned, InnoDB currently has not fulltext
search support. And as we just a week ago learned, MySQL is about to
switch to an alternative storage engine anyway in response to the
Innobase purchase by Oracle. So I would not count on the proposed
fulltext search support for InnoDB before those plans actually get a
little more shape than the handwaving done so far.

Jan

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