which db should I use?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> I have a project that I want to do with python. It involves a database
> table with  some 100,000 rows, total size about 400MB and climbing. I
> will be adding about 700 rows a day, and occasionally want to do a
> query, but only occasionally. (I am putting all the posts from an active
> newsgroup in to a db for data gathering, and to learn python and sql
> stuff) But I don't know which db module would work better for me?I am
> running this on a linux box, and cross platform is not a big deal, I am
> looking at both postgres and mysql. Since I have 0 experience with
> either one especially in context of interfacing with python. I'd like
> suggestions please. 
> 

This is really a Ford v. Chevy v. Toyota kind of question.  Each side has
reasons they think theirs is the best but in the end they are all pretty much
similar.