On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 21:34, Calle Hedberg wrote: > I would not use the term "simple" about some of the > querying,
I said that MySQl was noted for its speed with fairly simple queries, not that your system only used simple queries. > (and platform independence - one > reason for not really considering PostgreSQL up to now because it's not > stable/efficient on windows) This fact has led to PostgreSQL being passed over for many, many applications. Let's hope the native Windows version really does eventuate with v7.5 in a few months. Neither of the PostgreSQL ports to Windows which we have stress tested have been stable (they work fine under load for a few hours but then start to lock up), whereas PostgreSQl on linux and unix is bulletproof. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
