"Forrest W. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today, MySQL has more features that it lacked earlier - i.e. it's got > transactions and additional queries, and so on. > > I understand that PostgreSql has also gotten faster than it used to be. > > So, at this point it's almost devolved into a holy war as opposed to there > being any real difference.
Emphasis on "almost", though. MySQL still has a long way to go, and the bits that are missing or inferior will take an awful lot of work to catch up. It *is* getting better with every release, though. It's just still (as it has been throughout) trailing quite a bit behind PostgreSQL as a "real" RDBMS. Its huge popularity was a matter of timing and luck, and once it reached critical mass, well... :-) That said, lots and lots of people are quite happy with their MySQL installations. The reason why I recommend not choosing MySQL for a new project is that you don't know when you'll suddenly need some capability that it doesn't have -- and finding out after you've invested a lot of time and effort isn't any fun. Better to use what is known to have everything you need *plus* most of the stuff you might conceivably find yourself needing in the future. -tih -- Don't ascribe to stupidity what can be adequately explained by ignorance. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
