[HACKERS] Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

2002-07-29 Thread Matthew Tedder
Just a long standing curiosity? For most web sites MySQL seems to work fine, but overall PostgreSQL offers more capabilites so why build upon a limited base such as MySQL? Does anyone here have any idea as to why so many people select MySQL when both systems are open sourced? Matthew -

Re: [HACKERS] Big Test Environment Feature

2002-06-15 Thread Matthew Tedder
Comments at appropriate places below.. On Friday 14 June 2002 04:41 pm, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Matthew Tedder wrote: > >Question: > > > >How feasible would it be to create this functionality in PostgreSQL: > > > >One creates a test version of a database t

[HACKERS] Big Test Environment Feature

2002-06-14 Thread Matthew Tedder
Question: How feasible would it be to create this functionality in PostgreSQL: One creates a test version of a database that initially consists of read-links to the production version of the same database. Any code he/she then writes that reads from a table reads from the production data