[Wylug-help] FreeBSD and MySQL

[mikeb@gbdirect.co.uk]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:16:40AM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm a confirmed Linux and PostgreSQL man and I'm quite happy with this.  I can
> manage fairly complex (for me anyway) data models using views, referential
> checks and look-ups, left/right inner/outer joins etc.
>
> However, I've got a feeling that I'm going to get volunteered to develop an
> app on a hosted box running only MySQL on FreeBSD.
>
> I'm imagining that the Perl and PHP stuff  will be pretty much portable, but
> can anyone think of any pitfalls or gochas that I may come up against.
>
>
> --
> Gary Stainburn

Mostly the fact that MySQL doesn't support a lot of what Postgres does, in
particular views and referential integrity (presuming that Postgres does).

You should probably put your oar in right now and try to make Postgres
the DBMS :)

Mike