Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrej Ricnik-Bay) writes: On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry. While I'm

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-02-01 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: * Performance considerations: Inserts and Updates into the PostgreSql database is much slower compared to MySql. PostgreSql hosting thus might slow down the display of the web page online. * Availability of inferior Data Storage mechanism:

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-31 Thread Tony Caduto
Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database-hosting-using-sql Check out the link. I am starting out on a new personal project had zeroed in on PostGreSql with Mono-ASP.NET as ideal for my needs, mainly owing to a PostGreSql whitepaper. Now,

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-31 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry. While I'm a big fan of the BSD license (for varied

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:04:53 +1300 Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most desirable of any Open Source license and gives

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Lane
Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 01/02/2008, Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The part about the BSD license is bogus. A BSD license is the most desirable of any Open Source license and gives you the right to use PostgreSQL in your commercial apps without worry. While I'm a

[GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Swaminathan Saikumar
Hi all, I'm new to PostGreSql. http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database-hosting-using-sql Check out the link. I am starting out on a new personal project had zeroed in on PostGreSql with Mono-ASP.NET as ideal for my needs, mainly owing to a PostGreSql whitepaper. Now,

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:11:05 -0800 Swaminathan Saikumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to PostGreSql. http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database-hosting-using-sql The cons of PostgreSql Hosting *

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- On Wed, 1/30/08, Swaminathan Saikumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cons of PostgreSql Hosting * Performance considerations: Inserts and Updates into the PostgreSql database is much slower compared to MySql. PostgreSql hosting thus might slow down the display of the web page online. ...

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Peter Wilson
Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: Hi all, I'm new to PostGreSql. http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database-hosting-using-sql What a wonderful article - it's almost worth keeping a copy. It's so bad it's difficult to know where to start. I think my favourite has to be : +

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 30, 2008 5:11 PM, Swaminathan Saikumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm new to PostGreSql. http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database-hosting-using-sql I just skimmed through that page and honestly, it's wrong on LOTS of counts, again and again. For

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: If you don't get too much feed back on this subject, just remember that topics like this come up frequently to the point of list member exhaustion. You can find such discussions if you search the list archive. Too true. There's

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Swaminathan Saikumar
Thanks everyone. After all the good things I heard about Postgres, I was surprised to see this article; and the point on storage concerned me. I am glad to see that the article was wrong, not only on the storage engine count, but also on others. Thanks for the feedback. On 1/30/08, Erik Jones

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism inferior?

2008-01-30 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Swaminathan Saikumar wrote: Hi all, I'm new to PostGreSql. http://searchyourwebhost.com/web-hosting/articles/insight-database- hosting-using-sql Check out the link. I am starting out on a new personal project had zeroed in on PostGreSql with Mono-ASP.NET as