On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:39 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder whether PostgresSQL wouldn't be the better > solution... I've thought it is ... the only reason to prefer MySQL in the past has been better read performance. By every other metric I've felt that PostgresSQL is a "better" database and have wondered why everybody was using MySQL for everything. The only reason I can think of is the "network effect" which is one of the reasons Windows is popular (everybody knows somebody that knows it). Paul