MySQL vs PostgreSQL? Which should I choose for my Django project?

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Published on 2009-02-25T10:52:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 9:24 UTC
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My Django project is going to be backed by a large database with several hundred thousand entries, and will need to support searching (I'll probably end up using djangosearch or a similar project.)

Which database backend is best suited to my project and why? Can you recommend any good resources for further reading?

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