On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dave Crooke <dcro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wouldn't hold MySQL up to be a particularly good implmentation of > anything, other than speed (MyISAM) and usability (the CLI) .... I find > Oracle's JDBC implmentation to be both user friendly and (largely) standards > compliant. >
Dave, I've been following along at home and agree with you right up until you mention the MySQL CLI being usable. I work with the thing every day. The plain, vanilla install on my Ubuntu laptop lacks proper readline support. Hitting ctrl-c will sometimes kill the running query and sometimes kill the CLI. Its far from a paragon of usability. That last time I used psql it didn't have any of those issues. Full disclosure: mysql does have proper readline support on a Centos machine I have access to. ctrl-c still kills the shell. Your other points are good though. --Nik
