Hello there, I'm a freelance Oracle Developer by trade (can almost hear the boos now ;o)), and am looking into developing my own Snowboarding-related website over the next few years. Anyway, I'm making some decisions now about the site architecture, and the database I'm going to need is obviously included. If my site works out, I'm expecting reasonably heavy traffic, so want a database that I'm confident can cope with it. It is out of the question for me to use Oracle, although I am a (biased) 'fan' of that RDBMS. I definitely need to go for a cheaper route, and to that end I'm looking at either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Regarding MySQL, I've been put off by Oracle's recent purchase of InnoDB and realise this could badly impact the latest version of the MySQL database. I can almost hear Larry Ellison's laughter from here (allegedly)! I've also been put off by the heavy marketing propaganda on the MySQL website. Recently, I've been taking a look at PostgreSQL, and am very impressed by what I've read, although I've not yet investigated the database first-hand. To cut to the chase, I would be interested in anybody's feedback on the advantages that PostgreSQL has over MySQL. Also, I've recently read the "Inside MySQL 5.0" (marketing propaganda) document, and it makes the following claim: "With MySQL, customers across all industries are finding they can easily handle nearly every type of database workload, with performance and scalability outpacing every other open source rival. As Los Alamos lab (who uses MySQL to manage their terabyte data warehouse) said, "We chose MySQL over PostgreSQL primarily because it scales better and has embedded replication.".". If any PostgreSQL devotees on this group can comment on the above and its accuracy/inaccuracy, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. James
