i agree, salesman can make a lot of difference influence costumer. sometimes they are really a headache because salesman not really a technical person and know nothing about technical info. always suggesting something complicated and irrelevant feature to costumer. wtf On 7/1/08, Will Fitch <fitchwh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Touché, salesman. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lester Caine [mailto:lester@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:21 AM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: can you give me example of website using postgresql > database? > > Will Fitch wrote: >> Assuming that a system should switch RDBMSs is a waste of time without >> knowing the reason is asinine. Using NDB clustering is a primary reason > for >> switching. PostgreSQL is only currently PLANNING built-in replication, > much >> less clustering. Not to mention that the existing system is not taking >> advantage of ANY PostgreSQL functionality that is not already present in >> MySQL. So gaining performance and clustering is reason enough for me. > > You gave no reasons initially ... and with facilities being added all the > time, the reason to change may evaporate before a change is made? > Have you looked at the alternatives as well since you seem to have some work > > to do rather than simply changing the data source? > > I'm being told I have to switch to MSSQL or Oracle but the customers can't > provide justification to do that as yet and since we are only up to a couple > > of gigabytes of data replicated across machines I am always looking for > informed explanations of why a switch is necessary ;) i.e. why one database > may be more appropriate than another. > > The lack of proper comparison information does make it difficult at times :( > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
