Oops! kaarel@future.ee (Kaarel) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
> What could be the potential drawbacks of using PostgreSQL (perhaps its
> big size)?
"Big size" seems an unlikely thing to actually be true.
Contrary to popular misconceptions, MySQL is certainly _not_ smaller
than PostgreSQL. The source tarball for the "production release" of
the former is 13.2MB in size, whereas PostgreSQL 7.4.3 weighs in,
lately, at 12.1MB.
Measuring it as binary installs:
- Installing PostgreSQL on Debian requires adding a 9.8MB package.
- Installing MySQL on Debian requires adding several packages adding
up to (+ 8.7 0.2 1.0 0.6), or roughly 10.3MB.
- Installing FireBird2 requires (+ 2.2 0.7 2.4 1.8) or about 7.1MB.
(This according to my firewall box that has no databases running on
it...)
Seeing as how there's quite a bit more functionality in PostgreSQL,
you've got to wonder why MySQL is so bloated...
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