Re: PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

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.
>

Considering the quality piece of software that PHP is, I don't hold much
weight to his comment.

However, he does carry some umpf in certain circles. Perhaps we should
prove him wrong?

Joshua D. Drake

> -arturo
>
>

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