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The whole MySQL vs. PostgreSQL discussion can be very lively and interesting, however I sort of doubt the bsd-stable list is the place. You might want to ask specific questions on the relevant MySQL and PostgreSQL discussion lists to assist you with your decision. I've been a long time user of Postgres, and having to use MySQL on a recent project just reaffirmed that preference, but that's just my 2 cents. - Bucky > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD > > On Monday 23 October 2006 6:01 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > I'm not exactly informed as to the specific workload yet, however i know > > the database will have several million rows and be larger than 10GB. > > No offense, but that's a pretty small database. Also, IMHO the crazy part > is using MySQL over PostgreSQL. It's hardly any faster, and you have to > do > a *lot* of client-side work to emulate PostgreSQL's built-in functions. > Unless you use the much slower InnoDB that's now owned by Oracle, in which > case MySQL gets most of those features (but is no faster than PostgreSQL > would be). > -- > Kirk Strauser _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
