Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. Oracle, 2005 report card

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:13, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 13:37 schrieb Marques Johansson:
> >
> >>A recent Slashdot thread on MySQL performance
> >>(http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/038232&from=rss)
> >>contains a comment mentioning the following Fermilab report from May 2003:
> >
> >
> > They were apparently testing with PostgreSQL 6.3 at best, so I'd disregard
> > this report.
> >
>
> Perhaps someone from advocacy could go through their list of issues
> and help them. They do seem to be trying to update it, and now
> have references to newer features: "Datafile location and a
> tablespace implementation as of version 8."
>
>
> However some of their criteria (savepoints:"no", incremental
> online backups:"no", and "access to multiple databases: no"
> (what about dblink)) still seem incorrect.
>
>
> Fermilab did have contact information ("mail comments to:") at the
> bottom of the page. Fermilab's a quite highly respected organization,
> so I think this page is probably trusted by many.

Wandering about that page a bit myself, it seems most of this was
written between the 6.5 and 7.2 versions of PostgreSQL. I don't think
there's any active tendency towards misinformation, mostly it's just out
of date.