Geo Carncross wrote: > Thanks for clarifying this- I don't do much with MySQL- anything myself > really- because of bad experiences in the 3.3 days...
Same for me, actually. I got seriously turned off to MySQL when I hit the "global table lock on insert" performance-killer. Once I started looking at PostgreSQL there was no going back, especially once 7.x was released. The only reason I believe they don't have to do a dump/restore is that I upgraded my Debian MySQL installation from 4.1 to 5.0 and it didn't have to do anything of the sort -- that I saw, anyway. That, and I know from experience that historically MySQL has kept binary table format compatibility since pretty much the beginning. Man, I really wish we could just drop MySQL so we could concentrate on building a *real* database backend for DBMail (with triggers, stored procs, etc.). But even as it is, it's way cooler than any other IMAP server out there that I've ever seen. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
