On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Damien Mc Kenna wrote:
> For doing a pretty large databased web site for a college department
> (with all the cool stuff in PHP), which would people recommend I use:
> PostreSQL or MySQL? I've noticed that a lot of the PHP packages I'm
> looking at seem to favor MySQL, but PostgreSQL is getting more support
> these days. Should I just read through their respective documentations
> and figure it out for myself, or does anyone have a recommendation, or
> are there any good comparisons of them on the net?
I'm rather partial to MySQL, but only because it seemed easier to deal with
to me. PostgreSQL seems to do alot of things _outside_ the database, rather
than dealing with them inside normal tables.
Some of the decision will depend on what sorts of things you need to do
with the database. I know that MySQL doesn't handle straight transactions,
nor can it do table or row locking. I don't recall whether PostgreSQL
handles those normally.
I do know there was a rather lengthy discussion about this very topic on
Slashdot awhile ago. You might try there. http://slashdot.org
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
