Posted by Erwin Moller on 09/26/05 12:05

smorrey@gmail.com wrote:

> I've been thinking on this long and hard, and I can't seem to come up
> with an answer on it.
>
> Why is it almost always assumed the MySQL will be the server for nearly
> any PHP app?
>
> Why is it MySQL and not PostGRES or SQLite?
>
> At this point the only reason I can think of is that MySQL has a much
> more friendly name. But is that really it?
>
> Is there some winning advantage that MySQL has over PostGRES that makes
> it the de-facto standard in the PHP world?
>
> Just curious, because I've been playing with PostGRES for about a month
> now and it seems to scale MUCH better than MySQL, what with
> clustering,transactions and all that jazz.
>
> Thoughts?

Hi,

My thoughts?
Go Postgresql!
http://www.postgresql.org/
But you found that website already I guess. :-)

All Postgresql-functions in PHP work perfectly.
I'll never switch db as long as Postgresql is around.
It scales better, has LOADS more functionality, and is superrobust.
;-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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