Re: [PLUG] ISP's and db's

[Andy Smith <ajs@dca.net>]

Here @ DCANet we do not use MySQL.  Why?

http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html

RA!

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> Can any of our ISP folks shed some light on why ISP's generally prefer
> to run MySQL instead of PostgreSQL?
> 
> (The former is essentially a SQL interface to your file system with a
> few frills. The second is pretty much a real database. There are
> important data integrity things I just don't think you can do in
> MySQL.)
> 
> Tia for any light shed.
> 
> -- 
>  Jeff
> 
>  Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
> 
> 
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