On Aug 1, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
Measuring it as binary installs:
- Installing PostgreSQL on Debian requires adding a 9.8MB package.
- Installing MySQL on Debian requires adding several packages adding
up to (+ 8.7 0.2 1.0 0.6), or roughly 10.3MB.
- Installing FireBird2
Would PostgreSQL be a good enough choise for GnuCash (or Quickbooks or
the likes) type of program?
What could be the potential drawbacks of using PostgreSQL (perhaps its
big size)?
What would be a better database for that kind of job?
Kaarel
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Kaarel wrote:
Would PostgreSQL be a good enough choise for GnuCash (or Quickbooks
or the likes) type of program?
I believe GnuCash runs on PostgreSQL, so yes.
What could be the potential drawbacks of using PostgreSQL (perhaps
its big size)?
I don't think so.
What would be a better
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Would PostgreSQL be a good enough choise for GnuCash (or Quickbooks
or the likes) type of program? What could be the potential
drawbacks of using PostgreSQL (perhaps its big size)? What would be
a better database for that kind of job?
The main plausible
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What could be the potential drawbacks of using PostgreSQL (perhaps its
big size)?
Big size seems an unlikely thing to actually be true.
Contrary to popular misconceptions, MySQL is certainly _not_ smaller
than PostgreSQL. The
