Personally I am a postgresql user. I think it is a rock solid db and I not use anything else for production.
But I am sure there are people here how are fond of MySQL too and will speak highly of it. One annoying thing with MySQL is the max size of text fields. >From the web2py prospective, they work work the same. Massimo On Jan 25, 7:36 am, annet <[email protected]> wrote: > Over the past couple of months I developed a web application in the > package version of web2py on Mac OS X Leopard to deploy the > application in a production environment I installed Mac OS X Leopard > Server on a Mac mini and set up PostgreSQL to replace the SQLite > database. No problems there. > > Now I would like to deploy the application in a production environment > provided by a hosting provider. Mac OS X Leopard Server comes with > Apache, Python 2.5 and MySQL 5, and since I want to keep the > production environment as simple as possible, I wonder wether it is a > good idea to make use of everything Mac OS X Leopard Server has to > offer instead of installing PostgreSQL etc. > > A couple of weeks ago I installed MySQL on Mac OS X Leopard, however, > installing the driver was such an annoying and frustrating experience, > that I uninstalled the lot and installed PostgreSQL. > > I hope one of you can take away my doubts about using MySQL as a > database, and can point out to me how the overcome the driver > problems, and if not, my hosting provider will have to go through the > trouble of getting to know PostgreSQL. > > Best regards, > > Annet. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
