[Asterisk-Dev] Re: PostgreSQL support in Asterisk 1.2?

Rollin Weeks rollin.sling at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 08:35:46 MST 2005


Coming from an Oracle background to Mysql, I found several things different, 
including some of the defaults, and even data types. I was a bit frustrated 
not having embedded Select statements available. But I adapted to Mysql 
pretty easily, and have found it a reliable workhorse. 

I know how to bring Oracle to its knees, even on large enterprise servers. 
You have to be careful what you expect an RDBMS to do, especially realtime 
stuff. Is Postgres better? I doubt that, when you compare across the board. 
Each has its strengths. Mysql has a "builtin" ODBC for linix. Some of my 
colleagues use ColdFusion, and it has yet another ODBC.

Probably I wouldn't use ANY DB system with a medium-heavy loaded asterisk 
server, if I had to do lots of accesses in near-real time.

Rollin Weeks

On 8/10/05, Begumisa Gerald M <beg_g at eahd.or.ug> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > That's like saying "car brand X's transmission drops out if you
> > shift into neutral while driving, you're an idiot if you don't know
> > this."
> 
> Daniel is more like saying "car brand X's transmissino drops out if you
> shift into reverse and release the clutch while driving [forward].
> You're an idiot if you don't know this." I think that's closer match to
> "MySQL will fill your date field with '0000-00-00' if you insert the
> string 'crap' in a date field, [stupid]".
> 
> For most critical applications it may not be too wise to lean fully on the
> RDBMS to protect you from your inexperience.
> 
> 
> Rgds,
> Gerald.
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