On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:23:51 -0000, Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ""Gerrit P. Haase"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hello Ilja, > > > >> Of course, there's no such thing as triggers in MySQL.. *sigh* > > > > Drop MySQL support and add support for e.g. Sybase or Oracle or DB2 or > > MSSQL or all of them. > > That's just silly for two reasons. > > First and foremost, Sybase, Oracle, DB2 and MSSQL all cost $$$$$$$$. If I > had a Euro symbol on my keyboard I'd add a bunch of those, too. Although > Sybase has just come out in a free (also libre?) version, there is nothing > for us to gain by jumping on board a ship that isn't sailing yet. > > MySQL is a great platform; it's easy to use, insanely fast and has single > handedly made SQL and RDBMS technology available to the masses i.e. those > without tens of thousands of dollars in DBA training. Although MySQL lacks > a number of features that DBMail can benefit from, those features can be > worked around or just saved for later when MySQL stable includes them. > Triggers work quite well in the MySQL 4.1 series.
Throwing away MySQL support would be complete *project-suicide*. Personally, I like PostgreSQL better, but that's no reason to throw away support for MySQL! I sure hope the support for triggers and views will be here soon. It makes application development so much simpler. BTW, Sybase is free as in beer, not libre, AFAIK. Ilja
