[San-Diego-pm] book suggestion

Allen Gilson allengil at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed Oct 20 15:38:39 CDT 2004


Thanx Chris & Randal.
I'm the one starting an open source knowledge management system from the 
meeting last night. I will 
look into converting over to SQLite or PostgreSQL.

Allen Gilson

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> Date: 20 Oct 2004 12:57:58 -0700
> From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
> To: Christopher Hahn <chahn at peregrine.com>
> Cc: Perl Mongers <san-diego-pm at pm.org>
> Subject: Re: [San-Diego-pm] book suggestion
> 
>>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Hahn <chahn at peregrine.com> writes:
>
> Christopher> Yes, it was perl you were asking about, but it seemed that you
> Christopher> intended to use
> Christopher> MySQL and so I thought to comment.
>
> Slashdot's been all over that.  The real name for
> "High performance MySQL" is "PostgreSQL". :)
>
> MySQL was perfect in its time, but its time has past.  The continuum
> is now:
>
> flat files - SQLite - PostgreSQL - Oracle
>
> with enough overlap in each to make the pain painless.
>
> The only reason to use MySQL today is "legacy".... either in brainspace
> or existing apps that haven't yet been modernized.
>
> If .info and .org run on PostgreSQL (and *not* MySQL), that's good
> enough for me.
>
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