From: "Eric Mueller" <eric@themepark.com>
To: "'PostgreSQL general mailing list'" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: RE: RE: Re: MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:20:53 -0800
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I'm happy to contribute once I feel like I've got something to offer, which
I won't know until I have the lay of the land, and that's the problem. As a
long-time coder picking up postgresql for the first time, I'm baffled by
what seems to be a lack of detailed documentation for something so
fundamental as the built-in functions. Do the docs for the functions even
exist? Are they in the dist but not published on the web site? Zen-like
riddles and causes-in-need-of-aid aside, any hints to the answer for such a
basic question would help me get started with what seems like a very
powerful tool.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of GH
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 3:53 PM
To: Eric Mueller
Cc: 'PostgreSQL general mailing list'
Subject: Re: RE: Re: MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:47:05PM -0800, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> ...another advantage I've seen is the documentation! MySQL has its
functions
> clearly documented on the mysql.com site; I not able to find detailed docs
> for the pgsql functions anywhere on the postgresql site.

I ask you the same question I ask myself in such situations:
How much documentation have I written?
How much have I aided the Cause?

gh

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 1:08 PM
> To: kientzle@acm.org
> Cc: PostgreSQL general mailing list
> Subject: Re: Re: MySQL and PostgreSQL speed compare
>
> > One big advantage of MySQL over PostgreSQL
> > right now is ease of upgrading.  Upgrading
> > MySQL just requires shutting down the old
> > one and starting the new; PostgreSQL requires
> > a more involved process to migrate all of
> > your data.  (Of course, upgrading your DB
> > is never a simple matter, but at least
> > MySQL tries to make it less painful.)
>
> Yes, that is a good point.  We are clearly fixing/improving the storage
> system, while MySQL has been able to keep the same one for many years.
>
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