From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 9:21:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9183637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veldy.net (veldy-host33.dsl.visi.com [209.98.200.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203C943E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:21:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from VELDYLT (localhost.veldy.net [127.0.0.1]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AA01367; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:21:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <011101c26a2f$ca62b970$8204dca7@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "GB Clark" Cc: References: <20021002101939.A497@a2448.av.si-aceralia> <20021002070518.2a402b06.gclarkii@vsservices.com> Subject: Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war? Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:21:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am a Postgresql person myself. I can say there is one bad thing about Postgres that might be annoying to some. When data is deleted, the disk space is not recovered until a manual "vacuum" takes place. On a high load system with many updates or deletes, this could be a real headache. A cron job would probably fill role nicely. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "GB Clark" To: "Mailing Lists" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:05 AM Subject: Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war? > Hello, > > I'm a PostgreSQL person so take all my comments with that in mind. > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:06:37 -0700 > Mailing Lists wrote: > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message