Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 16 July 2010 20:33:47 Venkatraman S wrote: > > wrote: > > > > PostgreSQL is better supported by South, the leading django database > > migration tool. > > Is it so?? I didnt know this. Doesnt work 'properly' with SQLite3/MySQL? > What do you mean by 'support' here? > I thought South was

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:33 +0530, Venkatraman S wrote: > I thought South was DB agnostic. It is, but databases provide different feature sets. If databases were all the same there would not be so many to choose from. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 S

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Horst Gutmann
Do you plan to do anything really fancy that requires some server-specific features? If not this becomes more of a deployment question. If you're just starting with Django, using sqlite3 instead of PostgreSQL or MySQL is just fine (depending on your project). For later and for me personally avoidin

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread mad_casual
> this is a religious question especially without any information > about your case.   so, follow your faith :-) > > -- > Javier Or like comparing a balero to paddle ball. The firmer your grip on databases, the more useful PostgreSQL becomes. At the same time, the firmer your grip on database

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Alex Robbins wrote: > PostgreSQL is better supported by South, the leading django database > migration tool. Is it so?? I didnt know this. Doesnt work 'properly' with SQLite3/MySQL? What do you mean by 'support' here? I thought South was DB agnostic. -V- http:/

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Alex Robbins
PostgreSQL is better supported by South, the leading django database migration tool. It allows you to make schema altering migrations within a transaction, so they can be rolled back if the migration fails. On MySQL you are just left with a half-migrated database. Also, if you are going to use muc

Re: Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Doane wrote: > I'm a new Django user. Which database management system should I use > in developing Django apps, MySQL or PostgreSQL?  Why? this is a religious question especially without any information about your case. so, follow your faith :-) -- Javier

Database systems

2010-07-16 Thread Doane
I'm a new Django user. Which database management system should I use in developing Django apps, MySQL or PostgreSQL? Why? Thanks...Doane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegr