On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pavel Stehule wrote: >> 2010/10/8 Carlos Mennens <carlos.mennens@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> I know that MySQL uses MyISAM storage engine by default... what >>> storage engine does PostgreSQL use by default ... >> >> PostgreSQL supports and uses just only one storage engine - PostgreSQL. > > That said, ISTM one of Postgres's bigger strengths commercially seems > to be that vendors can reasonably easily plug in different storage engines. That depends on how you define "reasonably easily". It's not even remotely close to the ease with which you can plugin a different storage engine in MySQL, and would take a significant amount of engineering expertise and effort. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
