From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 21:04:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00660 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00606 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 21:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xq9w7-0006xP-00; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:51:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:51:11 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Dan Busarow cc: FreeBSD Hacker , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Informix on FreeBSD (maybe) (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dan Busarow wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, FreeBSD Hacker wrote: > > a) I was under the impression that mysql was kind of cheese-ball. At > > least PostGreSQL has some commercial support. > > Have you looked at mysql at all? It's a commercial product that > happens to have a very liberal license allowing free use in most > cases. If you do need to pay the license fees are better than > mSQL's. They also have annual maintenance contracts available. With MySQL vs. PosgreSQL you have to choose your cheesiness. The fact that new versions of MySQL come out every month, and the recommended version is a beta is pretty cheesy. The fact that PosgreSQL requires a vacuum on a regular basis to keep stats up to date, and to purge records, during which queries block is cheesy (although, I just heard that certain long running MySQL querys can block unrelated querys for _minutes_ at a time). The name "MySQL" really has little to do with the chessiness. > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 > DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 Tom