[plug] setting up Linux server

[Christian]

Paul Wilson wrote:

> > > A toy? I think that's pretty harsh. What exactly does it not do that you
> want
> > >  it to?
> > Perform. It's slow as a one-legged dog
> > Transaction logging
> > Relational integrity.
> > So far as I can see, it allows rows added to a table to be accessed by
> > other applications before the transaction adding the rows has been
> > committed.
> 
> Have you tried MySQL ?  None of the applications that I've written have
> performance problems (one db has 10.5 million rows in a single table with
> good access times), and you can force integrity by locking tables during
> updates.  Not ideal for RDBMS purists, I agree, but it *does* work.

You can either have fast or you can have something that conforms to the
standards and actually has *features*.  From my experience with MySQL
it's very fast but not really something to use for a serious database. 
I haven't actually used PostgreSQL but from reading the specs it seems
to be quite feature-rich.

Regards,

Christian.

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