On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> > so I don't see why you would consider MySQL at all.
> PostgresSQL is more expensive in terms of cpu (probably not significant) and
> administration complexity (VERY important)
I was curious about this last statement, and, having never used
PostgreSQL, decided to test it. I downloaded PostgreSQL 7.0-beta5
from the Debian distribution, installed, fixed the buggy install
script, created a database, and created some tables, and ran a few
relational (multi-table) queries. Elapsed time: 1 hour, much of which
was fixing Debian's buggy install script. (I run the unstable version
of Debian, so such things are expected.)
What makes you say it's difficult to adminster? I can't believe MySQL
could be much easier.
Best,
Dylan Thurston
