On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:02, David Goodenough wrote: > for anything serious use Postgresql
I would tend to second this (presuming you want to save money by not going with a commercial solution, although I've heard from people in the x86 world that PostgreSQL is at least as fast as Oracle). MySQL--at least, last I looked--didn't really promise transactional integrity. It *is* however, blindingly fast. If what you need is to move a lot of data around, and the information itself isn't so criticial--you could ask the user to hit refresh or something (a la Slashdot), MySQL is very good. If you need to move a bunch of bits with real value and the transaction must occur exactly once, then PostgreSQL would be my choice. Adam
