Re: [Fwd: [webmaster] in Search of free hosting with

Le dimanche 03 avril 2005 à 04:10 -0700, Jaqui Greenlees a écrit :
> Sim Zacks wrote:
> > dot geeks home page
> > " The new server will *not support PostgreSQL* so please migrate your DB
> > to MySQL (using the mygeek area of the site) or SQLite. "
> > Why they would switch from Postgres to MySQL and not allow the postgres
> > anymore is beyond me.
> >
>
> maybe they feel the slight improvement in speed with mysql is worth
> removing the postgrsql support.
> mysql is slightly faster in most cases, but it's enterprise class uses
> are usually slower. also it slows down drastically with larger db sizes.

The message is dated November 18, 2004, 1:06 am... This is six month old
news.

And MySQL is faster _IF_ your site has no traffic. Once you get -> 5
concurrent accesses to the database it falls over unless you use some
very expensive tricks (time = money)

Tony