what about commerical costs. if I run my website on mysql or PGsql, do i have to pay anything sepecific?
there are so many clauses and loops into this, anybody is crystal clear on this? Arvind ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mithun Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] which would be better > Sridhar wrote: > > > Yes, they are worthy of praise :) use mysql if ur data is not tooooo > > big, but then big is a relative word. for "regular" use mysql is more > > than enough and is very easy to use. postgresql is more heavy-weight is > > an ORDBMS and may be used only if mysql seems insufficient. > > > As someone who moved from MySQL to PG not so long ago I had the > following reasons. > > 1. Transactions support. > 2. Row locking. > 3. Doing lock/update on tables having more than 100k records. > 4. MySQL barfs at more than 30-40 simultaneous connections. > 5. Stored procedures. > > What I am still missing in PG is the flexibility of ALTER TABLE on > MySQL. Most if it can be done in a round about way in PG but it > definitely is not as easy as it is in MySQL. > > Also PG really came up to par with version 7.1 and beyond. By the way > all my opinions are based on default untuned installations through rpms. > > > > > Mithun > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
