Andrew White on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:17:02 -0500


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


Hi Jeff,

What gives you the impression that ISPs prefer MySQL?

We use PostgreSQL here at DCANet.

-Andrew


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.
> 
> 

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