On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:26:14 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > On 2006-08-01 21:04:07, Conrad wrote: > >>> A few years ago I did some research, and the result was that while >>> PostgreSQL was claimed to have more features and a better design, the >>> reports of database corruption seemed to have been more frequent than >>> with MySQL. > >> I can't claim to have done your extensive (and well documented) >> research, > > You maybe should consider new reading glasses. Or learn how to respond to > the correct message. Either you somehow got it all completely wrong, or > you responded to the wrong message. > > Or is there something in PostgreSQL that makes its users acidic? :) > > Gerhard
Well, maybe so - I followed up to this message: Subject: Re: Using Python for my web site From: Gerhard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:12:56 -0300 Which begins "A few years ago" and is signed Gerhard. It appears that Bruno and Sybren did the same, no? Perhaps we could get a referal for all of us to an optician for group rates? Here's my issue - someone, who according to my defective newsreader and clearly myopic eyes appeared to be you, once again invoked the word research. Not only research, but results. I've done research. It's a rigorous pain in the kiester, and it's seldom as black and white as you hoped it would be going into the project. But due to the blood I've donated to a couple of research projects, I would hope that the words "research" and "results" carried some honest syntactic weight. In other words, if I've done research, I would hope it involved more than reading a couple of Linux Journal articles, and a blog posting by some kid who's been serving up pictures of his sister's kitties with MySQL for two years now with no problems. I haven't seen any significant research on PosgreSQL vs. MySQL in an apples-to-apples, detached, no-axes-to-grind study. I have seen a number of "tastes great" "less filling" studies. I have seen MySQL bite me on the butt, more than once, and I'm deeply attached to my butt, however anectdotal that may be. But I'll have the honesty to not claim it's "research". Just hands-on experience with a tool. And no, PostgeSQL admins didn't get acidic using PostgreSQL, which is proven to be calming, regrow hair, whiten your teeth and improve stamina (it really does - I've done research on it). We got that way from dealing with other DBs before we switched. Cheers, Conrad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list