Обсуждение: PostgreSQL and MySQL in ZDNet article...

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,474127,00.asp

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote:

> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,474127,00.asp

I almost hate to be in on one of these my DB is better than yours/effective
marketing threads but...

That reads to me as more of a MySQL article than anything else, except perhaps
a one still has to buy a 'proper' DB if one wants a 'proper' DB. Perhaps one of
the things giving me that view is that while MySQL is sounding like it's coming
on leaps and bounds with a release every 6 months and is adding this and that
functionality all PostgreSQL can come up with is replication because it's
already got the rest.

I bet noone ever thought having functionality someone else didn't would result
in better press for the other.


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"Nigel J. Andrews" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote:
>
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,474127,00.asp
>
> [...]
> I bet noone ever thought having functionality someone else didn't would result
> in better press for the other.

Interesting, isn't it?

Also that they mention Yahoo Finance makes me wonder if anyone in the
whole wide (News-) World ever noticed that MySQL doesn't have a precise
NUMERIC datatype! Their NUMERIC stores and retrieves exact, but as soon
as you do any computation with it, it converts to double internally and
becomes fuzzy. Sure, because the application can do it instead, it's not
a real drawback against MySQL, but why the hell will it then be such a
major step forward when they finally have it?


Jan

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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jan Wieck wrote:

> "Nigel J. Andrews" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Robert J. Sanford, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,474127,00.asp
> >
> > [...]
> > I bet noone ever thought having functionality someone else didn't would result
> > in better press for the other.
>
> Interesting, isn't it?
>
> Also that they mention Yahoo Finance makes me wonder if anyone in the
> whole wide (News-) World ever noticed that MySQL doesn't have a precise
> NUMERIC datatype! Their NUMERIC stores and retrieves exact, but as soon
> as you do any computation with it, it converts to double internally and
> becomes fuzzy. Sure, because the application can do it instead, it's not
> a real drawback against MySQL, but why the hell will it then be such a
> major step forward when they finally have it?

They guy they quote in the article was at OSCON and one of the points he
made was that the things they use mysql for are mostly data stores.  they
use Oracle for financials and all.

One of the nicest features of mysql for them was that it can sit right on
top of your isam files, of which they have many.