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Re:Can PostgreSQL pickup where MySQL left off? by jacques_chester on Monday August 29, 2011 @04:04AM (#2936386)
MySQL (MyISAM, really) was faster for loading chunks of text and spitting them into Perl and PHP. Back in the 133Mhz days, people cared about that. Given that MyISAM was pretty much flat files in a clown suit, you didn't get much in the way of serious database functionality.
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