I have been extremely pleased with it. I have not had any strange problems with 
modeling, data type/WO compatibility. Were it not for the aforementioned 
pressure to include FileMaker Pro as a report writer, I'd probably not be 
looking away from it at all. Although, it does cost money and times are tight. 
With version 10 there was a free single-connection developer option but I don't 
think there is in version 11.

Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS



On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:14 PM, André Mitra wrote:

> So, why not use OpenBase? Or does it have to be free...
> 
> On 2009-12-03, at 6:20 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> 
>> Also, full disclosure -- i DO use Postgresql and I think it's a great 
>> database, but I always feel a little queasy when I do a deployment with PG 
>> without clustering support. There's always the feeling of "i sure hope this 
>> doesn't screw me." FrontBase has clustering, but has an obnoxious bug with 
>> clustered sequences which basically requires that you use guid pks, which 
>> none of our stuff does, so it's pretty likely MySQL is in my future.
>> 
>> ms
>> 
>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> 
>>> Caveat here -- I don't use MySQL (yet) for anything real.  InnoDB is acid, 
>>> though.  I agree that you should never run a myisam mysql for most normal 
>>> systems and that it's strange that this is the default, but the fact is 
>>> that you CAN set it to innodb, and it's a perfectly capable (if not VERY 
>>> capable) database.
>>> 
>>> Soooooo -- I'm calling this out as FUD. Search google for "postgresql 
>>> corruption" and you'll get plenty of matches, too:
>>> Results 1 - 10 of about 164,000 for postgresql corruption.
>>> Results 1 - 10 of about 12,700 for mysql innodb corruption.
>>> 
>>> There are quite a few huge systems that are running on MySQL. And the 
>>> simple fact that you can cluster it actually makes it far more resilient 
>>> than postgresql. Go try to setup a fault tolerant deployment of PG. Have 
>>> fun and let me know when you're done.
>>> 
>>> ms
>>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi!
>>>> 
>>>> There is nothing "specifically" wrong about using MySQL as a database for 
>>>> WO. What's wrong is using MySQL at all! ;)
>>>> 
>>>> Essentially, it sucks. The first concern of MySQL authors is speed, and 
>>>> only then correctioness. This may be seen my the existence of InnoDB 
>>>> itself. First, speeeeeed. A few years later, yeah, this actually might be 
>>>> usable in something else than a blog if we actually add ACID properties to 
>>>> it!
>>>> 
>>>> In my Univ, the IT team who deals with the central systems moved 
>>>> everything they could from mysql to PostgreSQL. Among other reasons, once 
>>>> in a while a MySQL table corrupted itself. PostgreSQL is much more robust.
>>>> 
>>>> As always in software engineering, everything is a compromise. There may 
>>>> be a few situations where MySQL is dramatically faster than PostgreSQL, 
>>>> and the inverse is also true, it depends on the usage and the DB 
>>>> architecture. This to say that you should use what better suits your 
>>>> needs. But what I would not expect is MySQL to... you know... work! ;)
>>>> 
>>>> Yours
>>>> 
>>>> Miguel Arroz
>>>> 
>>>> On 2009/12/03, at 22:58, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Miguel, anyone, please enlighten me as to what specifically is wrong with 
>>>>> using MySQL InnoDB as a database for WO because I have not seen any 
>>>>> problem, but then I have not used PostgreSQL or FrontBase either - so 
>>>>> maybe I don't see a problem that I should be concerned about.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Kieran
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2009/12/03, at 22:32, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I create new OSCs for most background tasks. The one thing is that I 
>>>>>>>>> dispose() on it at the end of the task .... and the dispose() is only 
>>>>>>>>> useful if you use ERXJDBCAdaptor is used since the regular WO 5.3 
>>>>>>>>> jdbc adaptor opens two connections for every OSC and leaves the 
>>>>>>>>> stupid things open forever. ERXJDBCAdaptor only opens one db 
>>>>>>>>> connection and releases it when u call dispose() IIRC.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Dude! 
>>>>>>>> <http://terminalapp.net/webobjects-postgresql-and-db-growing-and-growing/>
>>>>>>>>  ;)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dude!  www.mysql.com - innodb (or cluster NDB) .... doesn't "grow and 
>>>>>>> grow"   (and it is not a "toy", no matter what Chuck says ;-)  )
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> No, it's a disaster! ;)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The "growing" is a side effect of leaving the transaction opening that 
>>>>>> happens on PostgreSQL due to its architecture, but the point is the 
>>>>>> same, do what I say there to avoid the dumb connection. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yours
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Miguel Arroz
>>>>>> 
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