From: dg@informix.com (David Gould)
Message-Id: <9811171920.AA00783@hawk.oak.informix.com>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More PostgreSQL+CORBA
To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:20:33 -0800 (PST)
Cc: meskes@usa.net, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
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	"The Hermit Hacker" at Nov 17, 98 09:25:10 am
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Marc G. Fournier writes:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> > > 	Quite frankly, I want the *core* to be built around a complete
> > > implementation...if someone is really hot on ORBit, and wants to add in
> > > compatibility code so that it will work with ORBit, so bit it...but I want
> > > the *core* to be 2.2 clean/compliant...and mico is the only ORB out there
> > > at this point in time that will allow that...
> > 
> > I still think eventually PostgreSQL win run on ORBit on most systems. :-)
> 
> 	Appendum...why do you use PostgreSQL?  Speed or features? :)
> 
> 	ORBit is to MICO as MSQL is to POstgreSQL :)
> 

Ok, but I think the other sense of the question is even more interesting:

   why do people use MSQL instead of PostgreSQL?

My point is that while pg beats msql hands down on features, speed is 
important enough to a lot of users that they choose msql instead. If we
had more speed, we would have even more success than we do now.

-dg

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