"William Goedicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The broader feature set of Postgres over MySQL doesn't get a lot of
> intelligent rebuttal.
True. Fortunately, many web projects don't need triggers, subselects, etc.
(and PostgreSQL is IMHO a little more difficult to manage). In those cases
speed is probably an important criteria and MySQL is arguably faster.
> However this is the first time I've ever heard
> someone claim that Postgres is faster.
Last summer Tim Perdue posted an article on phpbuilder that compared Postgre
and MySQL and included some testing. I don't recall any of the details of
the testing, but I do recall that it showed MySQL was faster, but Postgre
could handle more client connections. See
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3. I haven't seen a
benchmark for speed that Postgre has won, but as Postgre gets faster and
MySQL adds more functionality perhaps the debate over the better RDBMS will
be more interesting.
--
Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/
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