From: Steve Shockley <steve_(_dot_)_shockley_(_at_)_shockley_(_dot_)_net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 22:11:09 -0400
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I keep seeing this, but I sometimes see the opposite. That "MySQL is faster"
meme seems peristent though, as if the PostgreSQL want to provide *some*
justification for people to continue to have a reason for MySQL.
MySQL is perhaps slightly faster by default; PostgreSQL has write-ahead
logging by default. WAL means my data will likely survive a crash...