On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Evan James Dembskey wrote:
> > I chose MySQL for our products because I could NOT get postgres to run
> > on
> > SCO Openserver, even though it was supposed to be supported.
> > I tried for 2 months to get help on the postgress mailing list.
> > Nobody offered ANY help.
>
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> Funny, I had the same experience. The only reason I am no learning
> to use MySQL is because PostgresQL would not install on either my
> Linux box or my DEC box. The postgres list was not helpful.
>
My current (personal) view on the debate is that PG is more advanced
featurewise and they claim to be as fast. It's also much less
user/admin-friendly and lacks (last I could tell) an important feature
I've come to love (ALTER TABLE CHANGE <column>).
However, mySQL is very fast. It's got virtually all of the features I need
(row-level locking and transactions are what I'm waiting for to become
stable). I've seen some stability problems but most were under Solaris. I
look forward to it maturing and growing out of the "small to medium" range
RDBMs that it's usually tagged as due to the (stable) lack of the two
features I mentioned.
By the way, found the -1 table handler problem. *sigh* Disk was at 100%
usage on that partition. Got so used to scripts keeping track of disk
usage I forgot to even consider that a possibility. Perhaps mySQL could so
some testing to find the instances where it would get an error writing to
the disk or temp file and indicate an error as such? I mean, you're going
to get an error code back from your system (f)write call that indicates
what the problem is...
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