22 Jan
2005
22 Jan
'05
3:28 a.m.
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:39 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder whether PostgresSQL wouldn't be the better solution...
I've thought it is ... the only reason to prefer MySQL in the past has been better read performance. By every other metric I've felt that PostgresSQL is a "better" database and have wondered why everybody was using MySQL for everything. The only reason I can think of is the "network effect" which is one of the reasons Windows is popular (everybody knows somebody that knows it).
Paul