It's getting there, albeit slowly. I think that if you rule out any up and coming application but it's just not there yet we wouldn't have an opensource community...
We have a variety of reasons for using MySQL, most of them aren't good ones though but it's something we've been able to work with for some time. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 9:05 PM > To: Marc Perkel > Cc: Gary W. Smith; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: The Future of Email is SQL > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Gary, > > > > I'm trying to introduce the idea of a MySQL backend to Timo over at > > Dovecot. He has done a little work in that direction already. But - I'm > > throwing this idea out there right now just to get people thinking. I'm > > hoping that in the next year as people think this through that some > > serious development will occur. I think that as people say AH HA that > > development will progress. > > Before you start getting stuck with MySQL you should read > http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html. You'd be much better off with a > database that's actually standards compliant. > > Probably the best bet would be to offer support for SQLite and > PostgreSQL. That allows small users to have the 0 maintenance of SQLite > while big users get the scaleability of PostgreSQL. > -- > Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 > > Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" > Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" > FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?"
