On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Alex wrote: > Frank, > pls. apologize. Maybe my description was not so clear. What I was > referring to was the fact that under MySQL you have more freedom to give > individual users of a shared server rights to create and manage their > databases In addition all databases are kept in separate directories > unlike postgres. Huh? Each database under PostgreSQL is kept under a seperate directory on the server ... always has been that way .. As to the ability to create/manage their own databases .. pls elaborate on what issues you've had with this under PostgreSQL, as its a simple ALTER command to provide a user with both CREATE USER and/or CREATE DATABASE permisisons ... > MySQL is still the default database offered by any web hosting company No it isn't ... I can name three companies that offer PostgreSQL as a primary database, and at least one of them only has MySQL as a means to do migrations ... and those are just the ones that I know personally ... > and if Postgres wants to become the designated db engine for these > services or become the worlds no.1 open source db then i think lots of > things need to be done. Take for example the admin interface (MySQL > Administrator) for MySQL which is done very professionally or the ease Please provide some examples .. I know any attempt I've made to do adminstrative stuff under MySQL has ended in a headache, but I've been using PostgreSQL for almost a decade now, so I find PostgreSQL the easier of the two ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
