On Sunday 13 September 2009 12:59:01 pm Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 12:45:37 pm Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 2009-09-12 um 21:08 schrieb Jeff Johnson: > > > I would like to express an opinion regarding MSSql vs. PostgreSQL just > > > in case someone might be interested. I created two databases based on > > > an actual MSSql database that I will be pulling from in production. > > > One > > > in MSSql and one in PostgreSQL. Other than VFP I have done quite a > > > bit > > > of experience accessing MSSql but I had no experience with PostgreSQL. > > > After a couple of days I feel I know PostgreSQL much better than the > > > other. It is almost intuitive and very easy to work with (maybe > > > from my > > > VFP experience). Because it is open source it seems to be a *lot* > > > easier to get questions answered. My analogy would be a Cadillac > > > vs. a > > > Miata. One has all of the bells and whistles and the other just plain > > > works and is a lot more fun to drive. > > > > I've a lot of experience with MySQL and a bit with SQLite. > > > > After all the praise for PostgreSQL on this list I tried to use it > > when I recently set up a new webserver. > > > > After searching the docs and the Internets for a while I had to > > conclude that PostgreSQL doesn't allow to use different text encodings > > (collations) for different tables - even worse, the encoding is hard- > > compiled, and UTF-8 is only possible with "C" locale. > > That's totally out of the question and a horribly outdated approach! > > So I went back to MySQL. > > > > Maybe I did or understood something wrong - but I can't say it would > > be easy to set up a working PostSQL server. ("Only one 8-bit encoding" > > *is* "not working".) > > > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > > Hraban > > --- > > You are right about different encodings for different tables. As of 8.3 you > can have different encodings for databases within a cluster but that is far > as it extends at the moment. Your comments about UTF-8 are wrong though. > See the link for a better explanation: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/multibyte.html
I missed that he was talking about tables and not databases. Johnf _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/200909131307.05632.jfabi...@yolo.com