Andy Dustman wrote: > >Transactions available since 3.23.17 (June 2000) > > Transactions only supported on slow database types like innodb.
If you ever tried it you cannot say that mysql supports transactions. No. Last time when I tried mysql 4.x did explicit commit if you simply disconnected inside a transaction block. It was a year ago, but I will never forget it. >>foreign keys, >> >> > >Foreign keys available since 3.23.44 (Oct 2001) > > They are syntactically accepted but not forced. > >>procedures, >> >> > >Stored procedures available since 5.0 (5.0.3 is the current beta) > > It's a beta. > >Postgresql is also a fine database. But note that MySQLdb (the Python >adapter) also has an equivalent mechanism for returning rows as >dictionaries. As for speed: I don't do any benchmarking, but there >should be no substantial speed differences between the two interfaces. > > > I have seen real benchmarks. MySQL 5 is slower than postgresql and it's also slower than firebird if you do some real work. Mage -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list