Re: Postgresql usage clip.

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM>, 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 02:56:09
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0005292355470.608-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Brett W. McCoy wrote:

> On Mon, 29 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > > 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? :(
>
> Actually, I daresay PostgreSQL runs on more platforms, than other RDBMSes.

That was my understanding too ... which is why I'm really curious as to
which one MySQL runs on that we don't ...

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