From owner-freebsd-database Wed Jun 16 5:55:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from scoisntc02.Scott.af.mil (scoisntc02.scott.af.mil [140.175.36.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E57F150B7 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Joel.Clark@scott.af.mil) Received: by scoisntc02.scott.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:59:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: Clark Joel A1C AMC CSS To: 'Joel Sutton' Cc: "'freebsd-database@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: PostgreSQL 6.5 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:56:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> I am a big fan of this product so please head out to >I've "read" that MySQL performs better under load than Postgresql. Has >anyone found this to be true?? Hermit was right on in his posting about MySQL being faster for lack of features. I did some testing myself (small scale) and was impressed with MySQL's speed, but when it came time to choose a db platform in our up-and-coming trucking company project, PostgreSQL was the only RDBMS that had the features we were looking for (to include being open source and free). The choice was obvious... FreeBSD and PostgreSQL >It certainly seems to have much more to offer as far as features go. And >the price is defiantely right. ;-) Indeed. jc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message