[ILUG] PostgreSQL vs. MySQL

Liam Bedford lbedford at lbedford.org
Fri Nov 29 12:14:03 GMT 2002


On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:54, Thomas Bridge wrote:

> 
> Now I seem to recall you telling me (in the pub, some years ago - so I 
> could be wrong) that Postgres' ODBC drivers where significantly more 
> advanced than MySQL's - which makes the original point wrong (it really 
> doesn't matter how the server runs under Windows as we don't care - but we 
> do care about clients talking to the server - and some of those clients 
> could be Windows ones).
> 
yes, my experience was that the myodbc stuff was quite bad, and couldn't
deal with unique ID's being NULL and other stuff that might happen in
Access, but the postgres one was fine. However, if a company refuses to
run a unix/linux server for pgsql.

L.
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Liam Bedford <lbedford at lbedford.org>




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