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Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres

Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowledge.com> — 2000-07-05T13:00:53Z

What ? sleepycat DB3 is now GPL ? That would be a change of philosophy.

Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Egon Schmid" <eschmid@php.net>
To: "Tim Perdue" <tperdue@valinux.com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@hub.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Article on MySQL vs. Postgres


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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