>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Richard> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:20:39AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: >> MySQL is just a file-based storage system with a pseudo-SQL interface. >> It doesn't support many of the things that you'd expect in a >> real SQL implementation, for example: >> >> * Transactions >> * Referential integrity Richard> Innodb tables give you these in modern mysqls. At a speed cost that makes it slower than Pg, and an earlier spot on the design curve which Pg has already matured on. >> * Subselects Richard> Not yet, scheduled for 4.1 though. Richard> Besides, people really don't expect those things. It's just the Richard> people who've used other RDBMSs before and enjoyed the bondage and Richard> discipline that expect them. People coming from flat files and DBM don't expect them. Now that I've seen subselects and triggers and views and stored procedures in action, I don't think I can deploy anything with a dozen tables or more without them. MySQL - fine for people who want a light subset-SQL interface to structured data PostgreSQL - Oracle without the price -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
