Re: Fw: read this and puke - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Fw: read this and puke
Date
Msg-id 200206151014.DAA07999@smtp.ucsd.edu
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In response to Re: Fw: read this and puke  (wsheldah@lexmark.com)
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> Of course, for some quick and dirty web apps postgresql may in fact be
> overkill... at any rate this is one small way I hope to encourage more
> widespread use of postgresql.

What do you mean by overkill exactly? I hear about "overkill" quite often
with postgresql, but that seems quite vague. Does postgresql have a
significantly larger overhead than mysql (i.e. startup time or backend memory
requirements)?

Regards,
    Jeff

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