On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 04:41 PM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:
I am a big fan of postgresql for other reasons, it is a far more sophisitcated database. I am an old SQL hack from big Unix days, and I could not suffer under mySQL's simple implementation. It may have gotten better in the last few years, but I think postgres has moved forward too. If you want referential integrity, inner and outer joins, etc, postgres is the ticket. I think mySQL has caught on for people with only causual familiarity with SQL, and is a little simpler to setup and understand. SQL can be a goofy language to get used to, that's for sure.
Yep- mention "foreign key" to a MySQL user and get a blank stare back :-) Not a snub: myself I learned SQL on MySQL.
I've since done some mapping work with PostGIS, the spatial extension to PostgreSQL. As well as being a good SQL db, Pgsql is object-relational and extensible.
Thanks for the PostgreSQL db drivers, Runrev!
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