Re: postgresql vs mysql

["Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 2/23/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
> >> That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
> >> as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
> >> scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
> > I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
> > hits, too, I believe.
>
> And outages if you watch :)
Well, there is that ... I didn't throw that in because I think MySQL is
great, on the contrary - we're having some issues with it here at
work (don't ask), but it is being used for large installations, too.
And then of
course there is this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2141344#post2141344
post where this guy (no idea whether he is (or was) what he claimed
to be) rambling on about how MySQL is better than PostgreSQL.


> Joshua D. Drake
Cheers,
Andrej