I hope no one will shoot me :) but MySQL remind me Windows. they built something simple and now trying to expand its capabilities without changing the foult of the past.
Its not true that I didnt heard about MySQL new capabilities , its just that they are special and not part of the basic package. PG was designed to be like it is now from the Begining . It is Relational DB which is much more sophisticated. MySQL will have, MySQL in beta ... ... PG is working NOW and for long time. for example why MySQL is lame: Sagi Wrote: > One thing, though. Unlike some other DB's, MySQL data types are not > totally strict - if you try to insert data of a wrong type it will > usually try to convert it instead of throwing an error. This may lead to > data loss if your application is poorly written PG does not accept poorly written codes, this is part of the itegrity. coders do mistakes which need to fix and you cant allow loosing data becouse of this. And about the speed. i saw benchmarks where postgress was faster. mainly under heavey preasure or complex querys. There way too much to write about the difrences but one thing is sure. almost all the SQL gurus which i had the honer to speak with stated that PG is a very serious DB which worth working with. I incourge those who intrested in the area to search the net, then decide. I myself will not work with MySQL if I could avoid it. Cheers -------------------------- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 Fax: 972-4-6990098 http://www.canaan.net.il -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "IGLU Mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:11 PM Subject: Re: quick MySQL howto, anyone? > On Thursday 17 June 2004 14:44, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > > MySQL state ( at least 2 years ago ) > > MySQL has developed a quite a lot since two years ago. it now has > transactions, user functions (user procedures are available in the current > development branch, and if I may say so there are much more powerful and > standard compliant the in PG), foreign keys and what not. it does this by > supplying a varaiety of backends (table types) which you can pick and choose > if you want, or not worry about it if you do not wont. > > Anyway - this is detiriorating into a flame war which I don't want to > participate in so this is my last post on the subject. > > Just one last note: this is the kind of discussions you get when one side is > at once has a very strong opinion and a very outdated one. > > -- > Oded > > ::.. > Be cheerful while you are alive. > -- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
