Re: PG vs MySQL

From: Stuart Robinson <stuart(at)zapata(dot)org>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG vs MySQL
Date: 2001-11-21 19:26:01
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0111211122120.2565-100000@dreamingameric.com
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For what it's worth, I'm one of those people who switched from mySQL to
PostgreSQL. Why? Because the latter has a number of capabilities that the
former is lacking, chief among these being:

1. transactions
2. views
3. subqueries

Andrey Shcherbina wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sure this question was asked before but I can't find the answer.
> >
> > I've just started looking at options of runnnig Linux-based (actually, I
> > need something free :) database engines with MS Access as a front-end. I
> > can't find any comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL. It seems so far
> > that PG is better (people tend to migrate to PG, not vice versa) and
> > that's why I'm asking this question on PG newsgroup but not on MySQL.
> > Anyway, it would be really nice to have that information on what exactly
> > is different in the engines.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrey Shcherbina

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Stuart Robinson [stuart(at)zapata(dot)org]

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