Posted by WilliamC on Tue Nov 10 12:54:40 1998
In Reply to: Re: Re: new postgres posted by WilliamC pp TimJ on November 09, 1998 at 11:33:54:
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Hi William. First, I don't consider this spam. I'm always happy to
assist a fellow hacker.I work as a webmaster for a company called Internet Security Systems
(http://www.iss.net). We are currently using Postgres for all of our
database work on our web site. We were using mSQL but it was having
problems with memory leaks so that's why we looked into alternatives.Postgres was recommended by our sysadmin. Since we are Linux fans, the
fact that Postgres was shipping with Red Hat and it was open source meant
a lot to us. I had also heard good things about Postgres from various
Linux/DB people.Since that time I've talked to more people about databases and have a
better idea of what is out there. No one seems to complain about
Postgres. However, I keep hearing that it's a bit slow.One database that I hear about constantly is MySQL. No one that I have
met has had any complaints about unstability. Not only that, but the
first thing I usualy do hear about it is that it's fast. I know that
Slashdot (http://slashdot.org) uses it and they probably get more hits
than we do at ISS.I asked our web application programmer what he thought about Postgres
since he works with it a lot closer than I do as well as has more
experience (Oracle DBA). He said he thinks Postgres is rocks solid and
actually thinks it's a better database for web sites than something like
Oracle since it's small and object-oriented.I hoped that helped you out. Definitly take a look at MySQL, too. I keep
hearing great things about it. Out of curiosity, what kind of development
are you doing/going to do? Have you seen PHP (http://www.php.net)?