Re: PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tony Caduto wrote:

> If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as the third
> column.

As already mentioned, MyISAM and InnoDB should get their own columns.

This is a really good comparision, focusing on features that I think
people understand rather than so much on technical trivia.  Someone else
mentioned moving it onto the Wiki.  Questions that pop into my head:

-Tony, would be you be comfortable with your work being assimilated into a
larger table that was hosted somewhere else but credited yours as a
source?

-Is the Wiki the right place to build this table at?  Large Wiki tables
get very difficult to manage.  It may be easier to build the table in
something else and then have that generate markup instead.  I'd rather
edit this in a spreadsheet and write something to massage that into final
form than do all the edits within the Wikipedia editor.

-If this is going to turn into the grand feature comparision table,
everyone might as well be thinking from day one that inevitably there will
be columns for Oracle (with a volunteer to fill out already), SQL Server,
DB2, etc. and plan a useful way to manage all that data from the
beginning.  That's another reason why the Wiki is a bad way to cope with
this data; adding another column is a painful and error-prone operation.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD