[plug] setting up Linux server

[Paul Wilson]

> 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.

OK Christian, I'll bite ......  what's a serious database?

Paul