On Saturday 07 May 2011, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> I've always used MySQL just because it was what I learned first. I am
> wondering if there were are any good arguments for using something
> different. For example, PostgreSQL. Or maybe some other nifty one I
> haven't heard of.
I used MySQL for years, because that was what, I too, learned first. I
had heard of PostgreSQL, but never tried it. A job I started in 2006
used Pg, and it was a very nice transition. There are data loss bugs
in MySQL (possibly fixed) that Pg does not have: like the famous silent
truncation or MySQL's auto-magic type casting; cases in which Pg will
throw an error instead of silently going on.
This will make for some good reading:
http://www.google.com/search?q=postgresql+mysql+site%3Awiki.postgresql.org
j
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