On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:13, Ron Mayer wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 13:37 schrieb Marques Johansson: > > > >>A recent Slashdot thread on MySQL performance > >>(http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/11/038232&from=rss) > >>contains a comment mentioning the following Fermilab report from May 2003: > > > > > > They were apparently testing with PostgreSQL 6.3 at best, so I'd disregard > > this report. > > > > Perhaps someone from advocacy could go through their list of issues > and help them. They do seem to be trying to update it, and now > have references to newer features: "Datafile location and a > tablespace implementation as of version 8." > > > However some of their criteria (savepoints:"no", incremental > online backups:"no", and "access to multiple databases: no" > (what about dblink)) still seem incorrect. > > > Fermilab did have contact information ("mail comments to:") at the > bottom of the page. Fermilab's a quite highly respected organization, > so I think this page is probably trusted by many. Wandering about that page a bit myself, it seems most of this was written between the 6.5 and 7.2 versions of PostgreSQL. I don't think there's any active tendency towards misinformation, mostly it's just out of date. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
