On 06-12-13 11:54, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> Admittedly, a biased place to ask (!), but for a new database project,
> how best to evaluate whether postgresql or xquery should be used.
>
> As a novice of postgresql and xml, am not sure what is most
> appropriate for a new database that will be tested initially on a
> local computer, then transferred to a web server at some point in the
> future.
>
> For now, just reading about the two technologies before deciding. It
> seems that an established system would be: data entered to various sql
> tables and stored on server; php used to query table and deliver data,
> for example as xhtml and css; user views query results as a table of
> values in a web page. What does xquery do as a better advantage (if at
> all)?
>
>
Which is will be the better choice depends on what your requirements are.
Even MySQL can store data in a table and return it :)
Do you have any particular things you want to do? Do you have estimates
about
the size of the database and how many users this database will have to
serve?