Re: systems 2007 ...

[Hans-Juergen Schoenig <hs ( at ) cybertec ( dot ) at>]

On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:12 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 08:47 +0200, Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:

- "what is the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL?"

- "we use PostgreSQL; we are so happy; keep doing "

- "we use Oracle, is PostgreSQL as powerful as Oracle?"

Sounds familiar. I also get "Does Postgres do replication?"

yeah, i definitely missed that one ...

the MySQL transaction log shipping is definitely something people are asking for.

it would definitely make sense to implement the streaming stuff Hannu has suggested along with the "slave read / only" feature.

it takes away a lot of pressure on the argumentation side.

If there is debate, I just show people the MySQL v Postgres performance

data from tweakers.net. That usually makes MySQL advocates go all quiet.

as far as speed is concerned we usually use: "MySQL guys only focus on speed - not so much on stability. does it help if MySQL can eat your data fast? PostgreSQL guys focus on proper development and stability. doing proper development leads to high-performance and we can prove that with countless benchmarks made by independent people" :).

the "eats your data fast" argument seems to stay in mind *g* :).

hans

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