Re: need for concrete info - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: need for concrete info
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Msg-id 20031012030428.GI19057@libertyrms.info
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In response to need for concrete info  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@fireserve.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:48:23PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> projects.) I want to use as my main argument, the fact (at this time,
> only from my previous usage), that MySQL really doesn't have foreign
> keys or record locking, and Postgres does.

Define "really".  Certainly, for some cases, it now does.

> correct with today's MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, right? I *really* want to use
> PostgreSQL for this project and not MySQL as I want to avoid growing
> pains trying to get MySQL to do the job of a bigger DB down the road.

Why don't you make the "growing pains" argument instead?  What are
those arguments, anyway?  ( I think I know, but maybe not.)

A

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