[TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center

[Mike Norwood]

What are some specific features that PostgreSQL has over MySQL.  I keep 
hearing people say this, but wonder what specifically am I missing out on.

Thanks in advance.

Mike Norwood


>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, U. Jason Gloege Jr. wrote:

> If, by "basics", you mean "the rudimentary storing and retrieving of 
> data", then MySQL might be easier.  But if you mean basics = "learning a 
> standard set of features I would expect to find in other RDBMS suites", 
> then I would probably go with Postgres... to the best of my knowledge, 
> it's a little more feature-robust.  MySQL is decent, I write against it 
> every day at work, but Postgres has some things that we wish MySQL did, 
> and I don't know that they've even been put into 4.x...
>