On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Rafael R. Sevilla wrote:
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> Postgres satisfies any decent definition of an RDBMS, however, it has
> scalability problems and is slow when you compare it to a real enterprise
> RDBMS like Oracle or DB/2.
Not always!! on simple inserts and straight queries Pg is faster than
Oracle. But its update functionality is about 2 orders of magnitude
slower.. so for web-app stuff Pg is a better fit (not to mention MUCH MUCH
cheaper: using Oracle for web requires a UPU license: $15/MHz).
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