Chris Cioffi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm designing a site for some clients and I'm wondering if MySQL or
> Postgres would be more desirable.
> 
> The site, as far as they've decided so far, will be transaction
> oriented and contain financial data.  They are expecting 1000
> concurrent users, possibly more, over time.

Go for Postgres. It has proven to be a very reliable RDBMS.

> This will be a brand new site so there aren't any legacy issues right now.
> 
> I'm more familiar with MySQL but I'm leaning towards Postgres b/c it
> has better transaction support and b/c I'm going to start using Trac
> (which seems to prefer Postgres over MySQL.)
> 
> What do you all think?

I would definitively avoid MySQL for transaction-heavy, mission-critical
stuff. FWIW, no we have SQLite for lightweight, read-fast db, I would
definitively avoid MySQL, period.

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bruno desthuilliers
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