Hey Fred -- > I would just like to note that speed and reliability are largely > dependent on the transaction profile of your application. If your > application is read heavy, MySQL is a sound choice. However if your > application consists mostly of database writes, PostgreSQL's MVCC [1] > architecture and row-level locking capabilities will > generally provide > superior performance and reliability to MySQL.
I question your assertion that PgSQL's row-level locking is faster than MySQL's row-level locking. I'd like to see actual benchmarks before saying that one particular approch is faster than another. -Jesse- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
