Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying

On 6/3/2004 4:28 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * David Costa <geeks(at)dotgeek(dot)org> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> I am sure SQLite can be faster, but its not comparable with either
>> MySQL or PostgreSQL
>> so is this text based "db" http://txtsql.sourceforge.net/
> Ah, I'll have a look at this.
> I'm using "flat" text tables in some web applications.
> If I can edit the txtsql database by hand, I'll probably switch to it :)
>
> <snip>
>> When you talk about speed the average PHP developer is thinking about
>> his guestbook or forum becoming slower with Pgsql
>> and this is not true ;)
> Well, this comes (better: *came*) from the issue that pgsql is a little
> bit slower on connection startup than mysql (is it still ?). Some people
> say, that comes *because* mysql is MT and pgsql is MP, but IMHO this is
> not really true.
>
> I already talked about this issue here. We could implement some kind
> of preforking or backends processing more then one connection subsequently.

Or we could just encourage people to use what's availabe. Pgpool has
more advantages for PHP applications than just that anyway.

Jan

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