Re: Article on MySQL vs. Postgres

I've taken this offlist with Tim/Ben to see what we can come up with
... the thread is/has become too "heated" to get anything productive done
...

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Tim Perdue wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > Will you accept modifications to this if submit'd, to make better use of
> > features that PostgreSQL has to improve performance? Just downloaded it
> > and am going to look her through, just wondering if it would be a waste of
> > time for me to suggest changes though :)
>
> If you can figure out an algorithm that shows these nested messages more
> efficiently on postgres, then that would be a pretty compelling reason
> to move SourceForge to Postgres instead of MySQL, which is totally
> reaching its limits on our site. Right now, neither database appears
> like it will work, so Oracle is starting to loom on the horizon.
>
> Tim
>
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