Re: Postgress and MYSQL

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: "Keith C(dot) Perry" <netadmin(at)vcsn(dot)com>, Rick Gigger <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com>, Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgress and MYSQL
Date: 2004-01-15 00:50:23
Message-ID: 1074127823.4005e3cfec7b3@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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Mensaje citado por Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:29:32PM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> >
> > I am totally against this kind of believes.
> > Personally, I think that one of the most important caracteristics a book
> should
> > have is a VERY GOOD INDEX. This makes the searching easier.
>
> But the PG docs _have_ good indexes! (Much better than other docs for
> open source projects I have seen.) I for one have always found what I
> was looking for. Searching in a full text engine is a different matter
> and I agree it is lousy (maybe that's the reason I don't use it
> anymore).

CAST wasn't there. :-)
Any way, as I stated before, I find PG docs to be very good. But I know that they
can be even better, so that is what I'm aiming at.

> > I had the 7.1 printed. Read most of it when my wife was in the hospital having
> > my daughter, and I had to stay there 2 days. :-)
>
> Go figure. Maybe I'll start thinking about children so I can have a
> spare time to read documentation ... or maybe not ;-)

No Alvaro! I had does two days to read. Since then I have had lots of less time for
relaxing with a book. :-)

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