Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Tim Perdue wrote:
>
> > Benjamin Adida wrote:
> >
> > ...useless rant about all MySQL users being stupid inept programmers
> > deleted....
> >
> >
> > > PHP folks have a bias, too: PHP was built with MySQL in mind, it even ships
> > > with MySQL drivers (and not Postgres). PHP's mediocre connection pooling
> > > limits Postgres performance.
> >
> > Well the point of this article is obviously in relation to PHP. Yes,
> > Rasmus Lerdorf himself uses MySQL and I'm sure Jan would say he's a
> > "wannabee", not a "real developer".
>
> I would seriously doubt that Jan wuld consider Rasmus a 'wannabee'
> .... Rasmus essentially built a Web optimized, HTML embedded language that
> I imagine a *large* percentage of the sites ...

    NEVER!

    Once  I've built a PG based middle tear with an apache module
    that could in cooperation be a complete virtual  host  inside
    of  a DB. Including inbound Tcl scripting, DB-access, dynamic
    images and whatnot. Never finished that work until AOL-Server
    3.0   appeared,  at  which  point  I  considered  my  product
    "trashwork".

    Some of the sources I looked at (and learned alot  from)  was
    the PHP module. So I know what kind of programmer built that.

    Maybe someone of the PG  community  should  spend  some  time
    building  a  better  PHP  coupling  and  contribute  to  that
    project. And there are more such projects  out  that  need  a
    helping hand from our side.


Jan

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