Re: simple database?
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:01:54PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 13:59, Carel Fellinger wrote:
...
> > So the big question is:
> >
> > Does anyone know whether it's possible to bypass the SQL layer in
> > PostgresSQL?
>
> No, it isn't possible.
Thanks for the confirmation:(
...
> mysql may be a good choice, depending on what you want to do. For
> simple lookups, without much updating, it may well be faster. mysql's
> weakness appears to be in running multiple updating users, in the lack
> of SQL features such as subselects, lower data security (because
> transactions are optional extras) and poor conformance with SQL
> standards
especially the 'poor conformance' is really troublesome, so I think
I'll go for PostgreSQL then.
> But if you are ever going to need a real multi-user database, you might
> as well go for PostgreSQL now. To speed things up, you could do
> query-caching inside your application, though a simple indexed lookup is
> pretty fast anyway.
The caching is already done, and probably the performance isn't to big
of a problem after all. You see, it's a late 80's program, and things
have changed considerably in computer land since. I'm still shaking
from the shock when my new computer (now 3 years old) appeared to
be running 150 times faster then my old one:)
--
groetjes, carel
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