On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:18:52 -0400, Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That "multiple hosts" sounds that he came across the NDB cluster stuff > that will become available in MySQL someday. Be aware that this new > table handler will to my knowledge NOT support foreign keys. So the > enforcement of referential integrity is back to the application, now in > a multimaster cluster. I don't think that's a good idea, nor do I think > it will be easier to add this later instead of doing it right in the > initial design phase, but my way of solving problems is not the way > MySQL plans their features. >
This is the major difference in philosphies between open source projects that are controlled by a company whose profit depends on sales of the product (MySQL AB) and a project that is feature funded by companines that actually need the features they are funding(PostgreSQL) So of course the are "selling" a feature regardless of it's need to be functional. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
