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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.'"
It's very fast and I haven't been killed yet.
Honestly, just avoid this discussion by using flat files.
"If A equals success, then the formua is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut" - A Einstein.
"Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP ... said the current state of the Internet includes a litany of broken items, but with a little help from PHP there may well be some hope for the Web yet."
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I wonder if he has ever consider using Perl
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But with PHP and MySQL, you can hammer screws much faster! :D
"'The Web is broken and it's all your fault' says Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP."
Translation:
"Hello, Kettle? Yes, this is Pot. What colour are you..?"
Really, if Lerdorf wants to know who broke the web, he just needs to look in a mirror.
Are you saying a Slashdot editor didn't bother to fully read the article and just made up a sensational and misleading headline in order to troll for mouse-clicks?
I don't believe you.
I've been writing Perl for 6 years ....
Anyone else misread this as "I've been WAITING for Perl 6 for years"?
"just like you can get better performance from a wheel-less Yugo if you slide it down a luge track."
I am sick and tired of seeing these sweeping, baseless statements on Slashdot. The body of a Yugo is much too wide to sit flat on the ice of a luge track.
Editors, please start doing some fact checking before posting this stuff.
#DeleteChrome
They say to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I'm sure it was even worse for the guy who invented the hammer.
Yeah but this is the guy who invented broken thumbs.
"PostgreSQL sucks." - From the guy who brought us magic quotes
Excuse me Rasmus, but aren't you teaching how to write XSS vulnerable code in your php tutorial?
That's just the thing. MySQL loses on all technical merits, yet the pro-mysql mob refuse to be reasonable. :-)
Play around with ACID, and you're liable to take a header out the window !!
Dude, that's another kind of ACID. It's database ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability), not the stuff that people got high on in the sixties. Concerning the latter, there actually have been unsubstantiated rumors about people who imagined they could fly and took a dive through the window.
I used to be a sceptic. These days, I'm not so certain.
Switch out your Postgresql database for a Mysql database running on speedy ISAM tables.
VROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Is that the sound of your database speeding up, or your data integrity disappearing?
Only Rasmus Lerdorf really knows...