[Tutor] Postgresql+Python -tutorial?

Lee Harr missive at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 4 00:28:41 CEST 2005


>> > I've been using MySQL up this day, but would like to convert my
>> > program to use Postgresql.
>>
>>I'm curious. Why?
>>Is there some advantage to Postgres over MySql?
>
>Postgres behaves a lot like Python in that it'll die early rather than try
>to guess at what the user means.  Postgres handles bad data much more
>responsibly, and usually doesn't quietly fail the way that MySQL does.
>


That describes it pretty well for me. That plus the fact that mysql
devs kept saying things like "relational integrity? What do you need
that for?" You mean in a relational database? Ah. Hmm....

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