From owner-freebsd-database Fri Nov 27 18:47:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24417 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liberty.bulinfo.net (liberty.bulinfo.net [195.10.36.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA24407 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 18:47:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Received: (qmail 31486 invoked from network); 28 Nov 1998 02:46:59 -0000 Received: from gate.bulinfo.net (195.10.36.66) by liberty.bulinfo.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 1998 02:46:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 14109 invoked from network); 28 Nov 1998 02:46:54 -0000 Received: from ppp49.bulinfo.net (HELO cserv.oksys.bg) (195.10.36.73) by gate.bulinfo.net with SMTP; 28 Nov 1998 02:46:54 -0000 Received: from cserv.oksys.bg (ian@cserv.oksys.bg [192.72.180.21]) by cserv.oksys.bg (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA23151; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 04:46:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Message-ID: <365F6419.41C67EA6@bulinfo.net> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 04:46:49 +0200 From: Yani Brankov Organization: ok systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andrew@squiz.co.nz CC: database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Andrew McNaughton wrote: > It's possibly stronger on features, but it's slower than mysql. It is > speed he's emphasizing. > Yes. It's much stronger on features, but (i heard, never tried it) mysql doesn't have commit/rollback command. It's a very big disadvantage. > there was some discussion earlier this year on this list about adding > indexes suitable for fulltext searching to PostgreSQL. Did anything > happen in the end? It's the one feature I'd really like to have. I > suspect it would be an important one to James also. I don't know the end of this discussion. I have a friend who is an internet provider. They use mysql on (Linux) for database containing offers for selling/renting houses. He said that in the begining, when the database was smaller mysql was may be the best choice, but now he is preparing to move to PostgreSQL 6.4 on FreeBSD. He's not satisfied with mysql for bigger databases. He said also the same thing for Linux and FreeBSD. :) --ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message