[sub] [Sussex] MYSQL vs Postgresql

[Tony Austin]

Does anyone have any knowledge of why MySQL might be a better or worse
choice than Postgresql?

As far as as I can tell:-

1. MySQL server can run under Windows as well as Linux but Postgresql will
not run on Windows.
2. The MySQL licence requires payment for commercial applications which
are not 100% GPL (plus a few exceptions) but Postgresql doesn't.
3. I thought that the Postgresql documentation looked a lot easier to get
started with than MySQL and (to prove it) very quickly had a database up
and running without knowing very much about anything.  (Not that I am
saying that there is anything wrong with MySQL online documentation.)

I have no idea on the relative technical merits of each and presume that
my humble needs would be covered by both.

Anyone any thoughts?

Tony

Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com