[ale] project help - postgres or mysql?

[Fulton Green]

And I think it's better and handling concurrent updates, if that's a
concern.

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:45:18PM -0000, greg at turnstep.com wrote:
> > Project I'm ramping up on will involve porting a microcrap sql 
> > server db to either postgres or mysql.  No stored procedures 
> > on the sql server side, thankfully.  Just tables and indexes.
> > ...
> > Would postgres be a better choice? 
> 
> Yes. Although this is a very small database, Postgres is much closer 
> to SQL Server, and should be easier to port to than MySQL. Even 
> though you don't use stored procedures (yet), your application may 
> need features such as subselects and views.
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