Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
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Msg-id 1163188700.6530.18.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0  (Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>)
Responses Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
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> I was chatting with a developer the other day who uses MySQL, and he
> explained how he chose MySQL over Postgres.  He loaded a fairly large
> data set into both, did some querying on it, and MySQL was way faster.
> I'm sure he didn't tune the conf file, or analyze the data, or some
> combination of the things you need to do.

He probably also didn't use Innodb :)

Joshua D. Drake


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