On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Bob Hall wrote:
MySQL is providing an SQL frontend to a
bunch of tables and indices, that is it ... it is up to the programmer to
handle the "managing of data" part where it revolves around being
relational ...
I've developed database apps in which the data was
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Bob Hall wrote:
Doug,
You've posted your usual good sense, combined with one statement I
strongly disagree with.
One of
these products is a relational database management system. The other is a
quasi-SQL-like-front-end-to-systems-of-indexed-files that has never
As for a full comparison between the two, I think the bottom line is
that MySQL is slightly more light-weight, but easier to use and faster
than PostgreSQL. So if you're looking for a database for a relatively
noncritical web application, I'd say go with MySQL, especially since
that's what
Check out:
http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html
and:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Matt Braynard wrote:
Can someone outline the differences between the two? I am partial to MySQL
from experience but want to get a good view of why one is
...no error messages, everything seems
ok.
Any ideas?
when you run configure, the status messages that are output, do they list
pgsql as being found? even with --with-pgsql enabled, if it can't find
the libraries or header files, it will re-disable it again ...
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