On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> 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
>
Try Sybase... :-) It rocks!!! At the ISP where I work, we are hosting
the FIRST authorized electronic check conversion system (authorized
by the Feds and by the banking industry!) and it has a HUGE database,
and is being run off a couple Sybase servers. :-)
John
