[rt-users] postgres vs mysql

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Wed Oct 9 12:07:41 EDT 2002


> 
> Two major reasons:
>     2) Postgres can't handle embedded nulls in binary objects, so RT has to
>     muck about with base 64 encoding in some cases, which is slow.

Couldn't. Now that DBD::Pg supports bytea types properly, this is no
longer the case. It should be changed for 3.0.
> 
> There's something else to do with case sensitivity but I can't remember it.

By default, mysql isn't case sensitive, postgresql is.


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