Re: web mail without local mail
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:05:05AM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> IMP, from http://www.horde.org
>
> Packaged, in potato and woody. Requires PHP, apache, minimal mySQL.
IMP works with postgresql too, which is far superior.
why use a toy database when you can run a real one that's easier to
administer, and is just as fast (actually, many times faster!) in
real-world usage?
mysql is blazingly fast in one particular situation: read-only
single-user access that only executes very simple SELECT queries. if
that description matches your needs then you might consider using
it...but when you need to do anything more complicated, it's much slower
than postgres.
btw, mysql's lack of transactions rules it out for any e-commerce
application...no matter what the mysql docs/faq tries to tell you, that
can not be emulated in the application layer.
craig
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