On Mon, 29 May 2000, Ron Chmara wrote:
> "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
> >
> > > >What an insulting article! They say that PostgreSQL is "equal" in
> > > >efficiency to MS SQL. The rest of it was pretty good, though.
> > >
> > > Actually it said efficacy - more like effectiveness. You can be efficient
> > > but not effective and vice versa.
> >
> > Efficient but not effective... you mean like MySQL? :-P
>
> This has "fire" written all over it....
>
> But as somebody who uses both, in large scale (er.. global) enterprise
> level data management, each has it's place. MySQL has much faster
> simple table scans, but it cannot handle the complex structures that
> Pgsql can. Pgsql has scads of additional features, but is limited
> in platform support compared to mysql.
Huh? You caught my eye on this one ... what platform are we missing? :(