Re: MySQL versus Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marco Colombo
Subject Re: MySQL versus Postgres
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Msg-id 4C7BBB67.5010705@esiway.net
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In response to Re: MySQL versus Postgres  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 12/08/2010 03:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marco Colombo<pgsql@esiway.net>  writes:
>> It's a matter of correctness: I see PG as a high
>> performance database system. Allowing to start it in awfully suboptimal
>> conditions it's no different from allowing '0000-00-00' as a date: it
>> may give you the idea you did the right thing, but most of the time you
>> didn't.
>
> Unfortunately, there are quite a few of us for whom "correctness"
> doesn't mean "automatically try to eat all the resources available".
> Your view of what is useful behavior is far too narrow-minded ...
>
>             regards, tom lane

Well, my idea was more along the line of "automatically try to acquire a
reasonable amount of the available resources".

You know, you don't jump directly from 0,1% to 100%. There's a lot in
between. "In medio stat virtus".

.TM.

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