On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:49:02PM +0200, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:
> > "Vernon A Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Anyone know the difference between MySQL and PostgreSQL? 
> > 
> > PostgreSQL has a lot of features MySQL don't have yet (transactions
> > everywhere, foreign keys, subselects, stored procedures, triggers,
> > etc), while MySQL is heavily optimized for handling big loads of
> > simple SQL.
> 
> Sorry Trond,
> 
> But MySQL has transactions and foreign keys. For the rest you are
> correct, unless you do not count myperl as stored procs.

To his credit, he said "transactions everywhere".  MySQL has
transactions for specific table handlers, not "everywhere".

Jeremy
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