Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Egon Schmid
Subject Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres
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Msg-id 3962402F.BB67CEF3@php.net
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In response to Article on MySQL vs. Postgres  (Tim Perdue <tperdue@valinux.com>)
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Tim Perdue wrote:
> 
> On wednesday or thursday, I'm going to be publishing my article on MySQL
> vs. Postgres on PHPBuilder.com.

Cool!

> Features:
> Postgres is undoubtedly far, far more advanced than MySQL is. Postgres
> now supports foreign keys, which can help with referential integrity.
> Postgres supports subselects and better support for creating tables as
> the result of queries. The "transaction" support that MySQL lacks is
> included in Postgres, although you'll never miss it on a website, unless
> you're building something for a bank, and if you're doing that, you'll
> use oracle.

Since MySQL version 3.23.16 it supports transactions with sleepycats DB3
and since version 3.23.19 it is under the GPL.

-Egon

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