Leif B. Kristensen wrote:
On Friday 14. March 2008, Adrian Klaver wrote:
Years ago I played around with MySQL because that
was what "everybody" was using. The problem was it did not do what I
wanted and Postgres did.
That pretty much sums up my experiences too. Back in 2002 when I started
fooling around with databases, there wasn't much of a competition, and
I used MySQL as 'everybody else' did. But when I reached the point
where issues like data integrity started to matter, I was advised to
try PostgreSQL. I did, and haven't looked back. That was in 2005, and
PostgreSQL was at version 7.4 something.
Our issue back then (early part of this decade) was that PostgreSQL
didn't run easily on top of MS Windows and I didn't yet have any Linux
boxes that I could run it on. It wasn't until 8.0 that we finally
started playing with pgsql in earnest. We also now have Linux servers
installed, which makes things easier on a lot of fronts.
(We'll be migrating our small MySQL install over to postgresql this
year. The public site is still based on MS SQL and hosts a few dozen GB
worth of data, but we have plans to migrate that to pgsql as well once
we have more experience with it.)
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