•Re: Re: Re: MySQL basics

MySQL is a popular database, but if you want more power, you should also look at PostgreSQL, which is a more complete and standard RDBMS. It'll take quite a while for MySQL to catch up to PostgreSQL, if ever. Might as well start with a real full-featured database.

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Re: •Re: Re: Re: MySQL basics by JackHammer (Acolyte) on Sep 10, 2003 at 04:37 UTC
I have a couple of why doesn't Postgres do this while MySQL does questions: Why is there no unsigned option in Postgres? The amount of space wasted in the database due to inflation of datatype sizes just because I can't use an unsigned integer for an index column and have to move up to the next size column. Doubling the disk space used per each entry in a table, not to mention the possibilities of the column being indexed...	[reply]

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by JackHammer (Acolyte) on Sep 10, 2003 at 04:37 UTC

I have a couple of why doesn't Postgres do this while MySQL does questions: Why is there no unsigned option in Postgres? The amount of space wasted in the database due to inflation of datatype sizes just because I can't use an unsigned integer for an index column and have to move up to the next size column. Doubling the disk space used per each entry in a table, not to mention the possibilities of the column being indexed...

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