| I haven't tried MySQL, so I can't give it a fair shake, but I learned databases with Postgresql, and I have nothing but praise for it. It can do all the neat tricks such as transactions that you'll want to do at a higher level, while giving you access to several procedural languages (a PL/SQL clone, Perl, Python, C). The only problem I've ever had was getting it to work on Windows via Cygwin (which I have gotten to work, it's just that Cygwin changed the way it does RPC, so some stuff has broken). On Unix, it's been solid as a rock. And the documentation is easy to read/understand. |