Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. Oracle, 2005 report card

Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2005-02-16T17:13:03Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 13:37 schrieb Marques Johansson:
> 
>>A recent Slashdot thread on MySQL performance
>>(http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/038232&from=rss)
>>contains a comment mentioning the following Fermilab report from May 2003:
> 
> 
> They were apparently testing with PostgreSQL 6.3 at best, so I'd disregard 
> this report.
> 

Perhaps someone from advocacy could go through their list of issues
and help them. They do seem to be trying to update it, and now
have references to newer features: "Datafile location and a
tablespace implementation as of version 8."


However some of their criteria (savepoints:"no", incremental
online backups:"no", and "access to multiple databases: no"
(what about dblink)) still seem incorrect.


Fermilab did have contact information ("mail comments to:") at the
bottom of the page.  Fermilab's a quite highly respected organization,
so I think this page is probably trusted by many.