First Try at Creating Website

David A. Bandel david
Mon May 17 11:28:40 PDT 2004


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:58:11 -0800
begin  David Aikema <davidaikema at shaw.ca> spewed forth:

> On March 18, 2002 11:51 am, David A. Bandel wrote:
> 
> > triggers, and a few other things.  MySQL offers raw speed.  In
> > general, you'll be better off with PostgreSQL unless your web site is
> > taking hits like Slashdot.
> 
> I thought that PostgreSQL was supposed to scale better under load.

I does, but because it has additional overhead MySQL doesn't, MySQL is
faster if all you're comparing is raw speed.

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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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