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[ILUG] MySQL vs PostgreSQL

[ILUG] MySQL vs PostgreSQL

kevin lyda kevin at suberic.net
Mon Nov 13 12:25:41 GMT 2000


On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:20:24AM +0000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3
> 
> He comes down in favour of PostgreSQL in a big way. Although not
> conclusive (he didn't list the queries he performed, what size each
> table was, or the size of machines used in the test) it might be worth
> throwing a PostgreSQL RPM on a machine to test..

i'm looking at postgresql as well because of mysql's table size
limitations.  the biggest issue i see: php3 w/o phplib has differend db
access api's for each db and you are limited to a single db connection
per script.  (yes?)

kevin

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