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		eli on March 19, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who wants to discuss about MySQL vs PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL versus MySQL: an unbiased comparison: http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/pgsql-vs-mysql.html We could spend all day on this, though.

neilc on March 19, 2007 [–]

However, it is quite out of date: for example, PostgreSQL has had a native Win32 port for several years, and the "--enable-locale" / "--enable-multibyte" configure options have not been necessary (or supported) for even longer. "Large row" (TOAST) support has been around since 7.1. etc.

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