On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 06:56, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>               Hi Linda,
> 
>  Anthony wrote:
> 
> > If you can use a simpler implementation that excels on reads,
> > use MySQL.
> > 
> > I prefer PostgreSQL because it has everything I'll need and the latest
> > versions are also fast enough that speed is not an issue.
> 
>  So if you just need to access a few tables and you implement the queries in 
> software (PHP, perl) mysql is probably the speediest solution. This is the 
> case for many webservers.
>  If you want to setup a "real" SQL database you should go with postgresql. But 
> for simple purposes it's probably not as fast as mysql.

I think Anthony's point is that you won't notice any lack of performance
form postgresql so you might as well use it, since it's a better choice
long term.

charles



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