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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.'"
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
"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.
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