Re: Postgresql usage clip.
Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Ron Chmara <ron@Opus1.COM>
Cc: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh@mecomb.com>, Erich <hh@cyberpass.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-30T02:46:45Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote: > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: > > > > > >What an insulting article! They say that PostgreSQL is "equal" in > > > >efficiency to MS SQL. The rest of it was pretty good, though. > > > > > > Actually it said efficacy - more like effectiveness. You can be efficient > > > but not effective and vice versa. > > > > Efficient but not effective... you mean like MySQL? :-P > > This has "fire" written all over it.... > > But as somebody who uses both, in large scale (er.. global) enterprise > level data management, each has it's place. MySQL has much faster > simple table scans, but it cannot handle the complex structures that > Pgsql can. Pgsql has scads of additional features, but is limited > in platform support compared to mysql. Huh? You caught my eye on this one ... what platform are we missing? :(