[TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center

[Joseph Tate]

Stored procedures (PL/pgSQL or C).  Triggers.  I can't remember if Mysql 
supports BLOBs or not, but Postgres does.  Up until 4.x there wasn't any 
transaction support (Commit/Rollback) in Mysql.

Mike Norwood wrote:

>What are some specific features that PostgreSQL has over MySQL.  I keep 
>hearing people say this, but wonder what specifically am I missing out on.
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Mike Norwood
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>>On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, U. Jason Gloege Jr. wrote:
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>>If, by "basics", you mean "the rudimentary storing and retrieving of 
>>data", then MySQL might be easier.  But if you mean basics = "learning a 
>>standard set of features I would expect to find in other RDBMS suites", 
>>then I would probably go with Postgres... to the best of my knowledge, 
>>it's a little more feature-robust.  MySQL is decent, I write against it 
>>every day at work, but Postgres has some things that we wish MySQL did, 
>>and I don't know that they've even been put into 4.x...
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