So how does PostGreSQL compare to MySQL? [LWN.net]

So how does PostGreSQL compare to MySQL?

Posted Jan 1, 2010 20:28 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (guest, #33129)
In reply to: So how does PostGreSQL compare to MySQL? by ringerc
Parent article: The ongoing MySQL campaign

However, there are some very commonly used MySQL extensions (like AUTO_INCREMENT) which you must do a different way in PostgreSQL

I've only ever used PostgreSQL, so I'm wondering how AUTO_INCREMENT is different? Looking at the docs. the only "interesting" property I could see was it's use with more than one primary key for the table (but I'd assume/hope this wasn't common).

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