Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything.
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Slides from Highload-2007 (Moscow, Russia) conference describing new PostgreSQL 8.3 features related to performance.
By Bruce Momjian (http://momjian.us)
Michael Stonebraker, Anant Jhingran, Jeffrey Goh and Spyros Potamianos
This paper demonstrates that a simple rule system can be constructed that supports a more powerful
view system than...
Michael Stonebraker, Lawrence A. Rowe and Michael Hirohama
Currently, POSTGRES is about 90,000 lines of code in C and is being used by assorted ‘‘bold and
brave’’ early users. The syste...
Lawrence A. Rowe and Michael R. Stonebraker
The design of the POSTGRES data model is described. The data model is a relational
model that has been extended with abstract data types includi...
Michael Stonebraker
This paper presents the design of the storage system for the POSTGRES data base system
under construction at Berkeley. It is novel in several ways. First, the storage...
Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence A. Rowe
This paper presents the preliminary design of a new database management system, called
POSTGRES, that is the successor to the INGRES relational da...