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>>You don't want to use mySQL. It is no where near the sophistication and power of PostgreSQL...
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>Come on Jerry,
>It is well known, that Postgresql does beat Mysql hands down in the arean of Fault Tolerent systems. with Transaction support and Stored Proceedures.
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>However, getting your feet wet with something like Mysql does give a newbe a true client server application they can work with to get to understand the basics of how to communicate with using OCBC. As you would agree, Mysql is Fast and stable, Just lacking in the 'Power Features' (Like oracle and MsSql)
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>Bob Lee

True, MySQL is a fast and stable light-weight. If your app is a one or two table venture used to supply names and passwords to webstits, for example, than have at it!

But, there are so many things that it does not do, and so many things that it does in peculiar ways, that it is not, IMO, worth wasting the time when the user will eventually move over to PostgreSQL anyway. Besides, one does not have to load PostgreSQL up (i.e., they can keep it 'light' by loading 'training' data) during the learning phase. MySQL is sort of like 'training wheels' on a bicycle. That don't allow the exercise of the proper eye-ear-muscle coordination, and eventually they have to be taken off to allow realy learning to begin. :)
jlk