Re: [GENERAL] Is PostgreSQL ready for mission critical applications? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alessio Bragadini
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Is PostgreSQL ready for mission critical applications?
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In response to Is PostgreSQL ready for mission critical applications?  (Stephen Birch <sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com>)
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Stephen Birch wrote:

> Question: Is PostgreSQL ready for mission critical applications?

> Several people reminded me that MySQL is faster than PostgreSQL.

On this issue I simply stick with the defition I received at University:
a DBMS (DataBase Management System) does transactions. Period. MySQL is
not a DBMS, then, but something like DBM.

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