Re: Postgresql usage clip. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brett W. McCoy
Subject Re: Postgresql usage clip.
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.10.10005292300010.15474-100000@chapelperilous.net
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Postgresql usage clip.  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
Responses Re: Postgresql usage clip.  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, 29 May 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> > This has "fire" written all over it....
> >
> > But as somebody who uses both, in large scale (er.. global) enterprise
> > level data management, each has it's place. MySQL has much faster
> > simple table scans, but it cannot handle the complex structures that
> > Pgsql can. Pgsql has scads of additional features, but is limited
> > in platform support compared to mysql.
>
> Huh?  You caught my eye on this one ... what platform are we missing? :(

Actually, I daresay PostgreSQL runs on more platforms, than other RDBMSes.

Brett W. McCoy
                                              http://www.chapelperilous.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as
we could with both of them."
        -- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Lincoln Yeoh
Date:
Subject: Re: Is PostgreSQL multi-threaded?
Next
From: The Hermit Hacker
Date:
Subject: Re: Postgresql usage clip.