Re: Postgresql usage clip.

Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> Ron Chmara wrote:
> > "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> > > MySQL is great for small websites with small budgets with read-only data
> > > or data that doesn't change often.  It doesn't scale very well at all, and
> > > for larger sites it really falls apart without anyy referential integrity
> > > or supprto for views.  But beyond that, you really need something bigger
> > > like Postgres (for a big site with a small budget) or Oracle (for a huge
> > > site with a huger budget).
> >
> > Have a db comparison toy. Lots of fun.
> >
> > http://mysql.com/crash-me-choose.htmy
>
>     There  was  some  discussion  about exactly that crashme this
>     month. Some detailed analysis turned  out  that  many  places
>     where it says "unsupported" in reality mean "does not support
>     MySQL's non standard syntax". Others are totally  mislabeled.
>
>     And  on the performance, it triggered a problem in PostgreSQL
>     that is  unlikely  in  real  world  scenarios  (creating  and
>     dropping  20,000  tables first, blowing up a system catalog).
>     Then running the test queries  with  the  blown  up  catalog.
>     Really smart benchmark :-)

Well it *is* called crashme.