Re: To Postgres or not

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: To Postgres or not
Date: 2005-07-13 21:11:12
Message-ID: 20050713211112.GM92165@decibel.org
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ted Slate wrote:
>
> >If I stick with a true RDBMS then Codebase is out. So that leaves
> >Postgres and MySQL.
>
> The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should
> read "So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-)
>
> (If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID
> database, which rules out MySQL too).

But there's no need to take our word for it... just google for 'mysql
gotchas'. :)
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