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? :(