For what it's worth, I'm one of those people who switched from mySQL to
PostgreSQL. Why? Because the latter has a number of capabilities that the
former is lacking, chief among these being:
1. transactions
2. views
3. subqueries
Andrey Shcherbina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sure this question was asked before but I can't find the answer.
> >
> > I've just started looking at options of runnnig Linux-based (actually, I
> > need something free :) database engines with MS Access as a front-end. I
> > can't find any comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL. It seems so far
> > that PG is better (people tend to migrate to PG, not vice versa) and
> > that's why I'm asking this question on PG newsgroup but not on MySQL.
> > Anyway, it would be really nice to have that information on what exactly
> > is different in the engines.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Andrey Shcherbina
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