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Re: (OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL)
From: Craig Skinner (craig.skinner
kepax.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 19:17:15 CDT
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:25:38PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> I can second that. I am not a heavy database user by any means - I like
> grep far too much for that - but when it can't be avoided, I'd rather
> use something with a working foreign key implementation (though that
> has apparently improved quite a bit in the 5.x series), and less
> 'nonstandard extensions'.
Yep to the above.
PostgreSQL has:
*) foriegn keys
*) supports ANSII SQL
*) Full ACIDity
*) supports views (sort of like symbolic links to entire tables, joins,
etc)
MySQL is a wee bit faster, but it has none of the above, so it is really
just an SQL interface to a file system. If you value your data, what
is the point of that??????
If you do not value your data, why bother with a database?
MySQL is pointless.
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