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PostgreSQL Slammed by PHP Creator
leifbk writes "'The Web is broken and it's all your fault' says Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. He talks about not trusting user input, and the brokenness of IE, which is all fine. Then he makes a statement about MySQL vs PostgreSQL: 'If you can fit your problem into what MySQL can handle it's very fast,' Lerdorf said. 'You can gain quite a bit of performance.' For the items that MySQL doesn't handle as well as PostgreSQL, Lerdorf noted that some features can be emulated in PHP itself, and you still end up with a net performance boost. Naturally, the PostgreSQL community is rather unimpressed. One of the more amusing replies: 'I wasn't able to find anything the article worth discussing. If you give up A, C, I, and D, of course you get better performance- just like you can get better performance from a wheel-less Yugo if you slide it down a luge track.'"
I agree with you fully.
PHP is trainwreck built ontop of a thousand nasty hacks and halfbaked ideas.
PHP+MySQL are the VB+Access of the Open Source world and just like on windows there are nutters who keep using it for real work.
PHP (along with MySQL, VB and Access) should be sealed in concrete and dumped at sea.
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You actually think he *just* learned that? Wow, you're just making noise...Ad-hominem much? In other news,
WoW Chacham calls *himself an idiot*. Try making a technical argument, it might not seem as ridiculous next time you post.
Anyone can play your child's game to get attention, by defending PostgreSQL vs MySQL like it's necessary. Making up semi-intelligent abstract comparisons like
The statement, states a philosophical difference that doesn't exist. You're back to stating fiction, within the same post *sigh*. Not only have you failed to actually illustrate why Rasmus is wrong on any particular point, but you come off like you're a driveling moron. Thx for the bandwidth anyways.
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ACID is wothless when your data is worthless. Following Sturgeon's Revelation, mySQL is perfect for most web use.
But if you're using a dbms for an actual application -- web-based or not -- you (more than likely) need the data integrity that ACID stives to provide.