Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for
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Msg-id 20030324171829.M26999@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for  (Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>)
Responses Re: fairly current mysql v postgresql comparison need for  (Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>)
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
> people who turn off these features to gain speed are asking for a world of
> hurt somewhere down the line.

No, they're not.  They're planning that there will be some poor
schmoe who'll have to clean up the work ;-)  (These are, by the way,
the same folks who are always advocating doing the transaction
management "in the application: it's faster."  Mostly, as far as my
experience goes, it's faster because it doesn't work.)

A

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