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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Why Not MySQL? From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:44:42 -0300 (ADT) On Wed, 3 May 2000, Mitch Vincent wrote: > Hi Don, thanks for your reply... > > > First, have you been having the same problems with PG 7.0? I recall that > > you had it up on a test system but nothing more. > > No, I was afraid to run 7.0 beta on the production server. I do have it on > my development server however and haven't had any problems with it (of > course the devel server is only used by me, the production server is used by > about 600 people)... Okay, its no longer beta :) run it, run it :) My experience so far is that it was basically a 'plug-n-play' sort of thing ... dump your database, upgrade and reload ... the only problem I had was one script that I did something like: SELECT field as field without realizing it, and v7.0 won't allow that (field == field) ... other then that, *much* more stable, and appears faster then the old ... > Ooooo. Mitch hates Linux. It's a long, boring story but lets just say that > Linux and I use to be friends, now we're mortal enemies. :-) I like you :) ===