Re: Need Some Recent Information on the Differences between Postgres and MySql

In response to John Gage :
> Forgive me for being somewhat stupid, but is MyISAM a text search
> engine?  The Wikipedia article doesn't make it sound like one.

MyISAM provides textsearch and other features, but no referential
integrity. It's just one of many storage engines.

>
> Could you be more specific as to how, for example, MySQL implements
> regular expressions or the tsvector funcitionality?

I think, this is the wrong place to explain mysql-features...


Regards, Andreas
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