MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread Mailing Lists
Hi all, I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following blog entry on the web today which has me thinking: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203 The coles notes version is that the

Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Mailing Lists wrote: Hi all, I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following blog entry on the web today which has me thinking: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203 The coles

Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
IIRC, the site owner at phpbuilder.com has done some research on this and has a solid opinion. It may match Jeremy's, but I can't remember at the moment. You might grok his search routine and get another opinion. Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. - Original Message - From: Roger 'Rocky'

Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread GB Clark
Hello, I'm a PostgreSQL person so take all my comments with that in mind. On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:06:37 -0700 Mailing Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following

Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I am a Postgresql person myself. I can say there is one bad thing about Postgres that might be annoying to some. When data is deleted, the disk space is not recovered until a manual vacuum takes place. On a high load system with many updates or deletes, this could be a real headache. A cron