Re: MySQL v. PostgreSQL

Torsten Bronger <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:28:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Organization Phoenix Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallöchen!

Markus Hoenicka writes:

> Quoting Torsten Bronger <[email protected]>:
>
>> 0.8.2 for both.
>
> I think that explains it. The bug in dbd_mysql.c I was talking
> about was fixed in revision 1.93 on Dec 11, 2007 (see
> http://libdbi-drivers.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers/drivers/mysql/dbd_mysql.c?view=log). 0.8.2
> was released in Feb 2007. Is there a way to upgrade libdbi and
> libdbi-drivers to 0.8.3?

No, but I'm sure this would solve the problem then.  It sounds
highly plausible.

Okay, so the only issue that remains is that you can't (sanely)
search for patterns like M.ller.  You need it e.g. if you don't know
whether Müller was inserted into the DB as Muller or Müller.
Admittetly, this use case is rare but it may be confusing sometimes.

Given that RefDB isn't a resource hog so speed is not an issue, I
still think though that PG should be prefered over MySQL in case you
have the choice.

Thank you for your clarifications!

Tschö,
Torsten.

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