Re: monolithic distro - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lukas Smith
Subject Re: monolithic distro
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In response to Re: monolithic distro  (Lukas Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>)
Responses Re: monolithic distro  (Lukas Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>)
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Lukas Smith wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
>>> whereas PostgreSQL is continuously complaing that
>>> MySQL is inferior yet way more popular. Maybe MySQL's popularity is not
>>> even PostgreSQL's goal, but I am sure a bit more would be welcome.
>>
>> Does MySQL have a monolithic distribution?
> 
> Well obviously MySQL is missing alot of functionality that you will not 
> get in any version of MySQL though.
> 
> However it comes with replication, fulltext indexes out of the box. They 
> currently only have a single stored procedure language (partial SQL:2003 
> implementation).

Oh and they also ship a federated (AFAIK their dblink answer) along with 
several other storage engines for various specific tasks.

regards,
Lukas


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