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PostgreSQL 7.4 Released
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes "PostgreSQL 7.4 has just been released. The list of new features is impressive and includes greatly improved OLAP performance among many other speed improvements."
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If you ask me, I'm glad that people opine and wage war when it comes to PostgreSQL vs. MySQL. MySQL has done for PostgreSQL what windows has done for Linux: make it want to thrive, compete and prosper.
This is also why Microsoft WANTS there to be an enemy: they need someone to compete against to continue improving their product (which they do, even if we hate to admit it).
If you don't believe me, ask Dubya.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
Trading stability for speed is stupid.
Period. End of story. The job of a RDBMS is not "be fast".
Maybe then, they need to stop claiming they're building a relational database management system because they're obviously not and anyone who thinks they are is addled in the head.
If the application layer has to handle data integrity, the system behind it isn't relational and it's arguably not even doing the job of a DMBS. More like a convenient indexing tool.
MySQL makes a fine database management system where it doesn't matter if your data gets mangled and all you want to do is fast, simple SELECTs, but what irritates the "zealots" like me is that MySQL folks will actually sit and argue that MySQL is even remotely close to a RDBMS. pgsql and their ilk aren't truly relational either.. but they're a heck of a lot closer.
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