David wrote: > The second reply asked "Why switch?" There's no smoking gun or nasty > occurrence, but we're switching some applications from Oracle to open- > source databases and are trying several. Because we need to interact > both via Django applications and via direct SQL, we have been finding > it much easier to shoot ourselves in the feet when we neglect to use > the InnoDB storage engine and thus have no foreign-key-constraint > enforcement. It also seems like Django authors (in The Book at least) > favor PostgreSQL.
There are many reasons to prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL. Many of them may be found here: MySQL-PostgreSQL comparison http://www.teknico.net/devel/myvspg/index.en.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Anyone who says their ambition is "to be famous" is a fragile ego desperate for external recognition and for these people the Big Brother show can be a devastating experience, not least with the constant fear of public "reject- ion". Being voted out means "they don't love me" when the real problem is that the celebs don't love themselves. -- David Icke, January 2007 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---