Re: PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

On Sep 14, 2006, at 11:27 , Arturo Perez wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Any response to this:
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631831
>
> From the FA:
>
> One performance enhancement that Lerdorf suggested based on code
> analysis was to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL for the database.
>
> "If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle it's very
> fast," Lerdorf said. "You can gain quite a bit of performance."
>
> For the items that MySQL doesn't handle as well as PostgreSQL,
> Lerdorf noted that some features can be emulated in PHP itself, and
> you still end up with a net performance boost.

I wasn't able to find anything the "article" worth discussing. If you
give up A, C, I, and D, of course you get better performance- just
like you can get better performance from a wheel-less Yugo if you
slide it down a luge track.

-M