Yep, those were two of my very first questions too. ;) CSN --- "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Stupid question, but what does MySQL bring to the > equation? Why not just > use PostgreSQL in the first place? > > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, CSN wrote: > > > Look what somebody suggested! > > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > If the worst happens and Oracle tries to squash > > InnoDB, there may already be such an alternative > out > > there. > > > > I wonder what it would take to add (and optimize) > > Postgres storage engine support to MySQL? I don't > know > > exactly how current versions of MySQL and Postgres > > maesure up performance-wise, but PgSQL seems to > have > > made steady progress on performance improvements. > > > > Maybe this is a crazy idea, I don't know how > > technically or legally feasible it is, but I > really > > like the idea of the two open-source communities > > uniting to battle Oracle. > > > > > http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005490.html#comment-21233 > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home > page! > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please > send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to > majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list > cleanly > > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking > Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@xxxxxxx Yahoo!: yscrappy > ICQ: 7615664 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
