Re: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL on Slashdot

From: Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
To: Jeffrey Webster <icwebby(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL on Slashdot
Date: 2006-12-18 20:32:01
Message-ID: 4586FAC1.9070906@janestcapital.com
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Jeffrey Webster wrote:

> Anyone read this? Thoughts?
>
> Doesn't seem all that unbiased to me. I don't recommend posting to
> their thread, since it would be a holy war. But it's interesting to
> read people's thoughts about what's important in a database. i.e.
> speed rules over data integrity.
>
It's comparing Postgres 7.2 (seriously ancient) vr.s MySql 5.0
(modern). It's also 2+ years old.

I don't generally bother to read the comments on /. anymore ("In Soviet
Russia, the comments read you!"), but I did in this case. What's
interesting is, at least when I read them, all the comments that had
been modded up to at least +3 where pro-postgres and/or ripping this
article a new one.

Brian

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