I really like Postgres and have used it in many large scale applications with (knock on wood) no real failures. I haven't used any of the clustering it now supports, but will be doing so soon. I think MySQL is faster in some cases, but Postgres has a stronger transaction basis which is more important for my applications. --- Micah DesJardins wrote: > Whoops! I meant to yank that from the end :P > > MySQL is making a lot of headway in terms of > features, but I have to say as > far as depth of features, and flexibility on the > back-end I really like > PgSQL. It has its quirks, but every DB does and for > some reason I seem to > "grok" it in a more natural way than MySQL. As far > as performance, it's hard > for me to say. I'd be willing to bet it doesn't do > straight table lookups as > fast as MySQL, but that's not generally what I'm > looking for. I haven't > rolled it out in any big implementations yet, but > I'm working on some proof > of concept stuff at the moment and with luck I can > get a decent > implementation going within the next year. I did a > little poking around and > once I saw the list of people and organizations > using it for their back-end > I was pretty solid on it. > > MDJ > > On 9/14/05, Alex Dean wrote: > > > > Micah DesJardins wrote: > > > > > Interests include: Apache, PgSQL, PHP, Ruby, > Perl, PgSQL. > > > > Hey, do you like PgSQL? ;) Just kidding. I picked > up a book about it > > recently, and I have to say I'm really liking it > as well. Soooo many > > more features than MySQL. > > > > alex > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss