[geeks] MySQL question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:29:46PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> if you have a chance, please do look at Postgresql.  Provided your app
> can use it, it is a much better choice in many ways.  apologies if
> this idea has already been put forth.

This is another of those religious issues.  We (as in the Bacula
project) have discovered that the Bacula database schema has to be
substantially changed for installations using PostgreSQL, because
certain operations that Bacula uses heavily are at least ten times
slower on PostgreSQL than on MySQL.

Sometimes MySQL is better.  Sometimes PostgreSQL is better.  Sometimes
one works just as well for you as the other.  It all depends what you're
doing.


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