On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:19:27AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
achieve that goal. Before we have tried Postgres, let's refrain from claiming that it has "obvious" advantages or drawbacks. Otherwise we risk getting entrenched in prestigious preferences, and few things can be more destructive.
What about trying other backends of MySQL ? It has at least two other than the default one - afair BerkeleyDB and InnoDB.
Experience with InnoDB on Kuro5hin.org shows it to be problematic. And it still doesn't give you subselects. Subselects can mean some big savings in terms of query times.
Jonathan