Re: Postgresql usage clip.

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

> 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.
>

Doesn't really matter what it's called if it's sole purpose is to
make your product loog good and everyone else's look bad, it may as
well come from Redmond.

Vince.
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