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I think around that time, postgres was handicapped because of performance reasons. It was considered slow because of ACID compliance and MySQL was all the rage
by rubyskills 6y ago
I think around that time, postgres was handicapped because of performance reasons. It was considered slow because of ACID compliance and MySQL was all the rage with MyISAM.
If only postgres won the marketing battle back then...
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago> If only postgres won the marketing battle back then... Be glad they didn't - otherwise their support dept. would be buried under questions from web-hosting newbs.
- count 6y agoPG also shipped with EXTREMELY conservative defaults for buffers/etc., so it ran like total ass 'out of the box' for years. A quick change to buffer allocations and things in the config file made it fly, but you had to 'know' that was a thing, where mysql just...didn't need that tweaking.