Re: Fw: read this and puke

Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general@empires.org>

From: Jeff Davis <list-pgsql-general@empires.org>
To: wsheldah@lexmark.com
Date: 2002-06-15T10:13:27Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> Of course, for some quick and dirty web apps postgresql may in fact be
> overkill... at any rate this is one small way I hope to encourage more
> widespread use of postgresql.

What do you mean by overkill exactly? I hear about "overkill" quite often 
with postgresql, but that seems quite vague. Does postgresql have a 
significantly larger overhead than mysql (i.e. startup time or backend memory 
requirements)?

Regards,
	Jeff