On 05/12/2009, at 6:29 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:

> On Dec 4, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
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>> So, to sum up the pros and cons we heard in the discussion:
>> 
>> FOR MySQL
>> - Free
> 
> So is PG, FrontBase, and others so no a major Pro
> 
>> - Easy to setup and configure
> 
> Uh, it does not work correctly out of the box so I think this is a con

Yeah - it means lots of reading so as to, um, fine-tune what should have been 
an out-of-the-box option.

>> - Clustering engine
>> - Easy reliable replication
> 
> Those two are really the only Pros that I can see for it.  Those are the only 
> things that would make me use it
> 
>> AGAINST MySQL
>> - Lack of deferred constraints
>> - Lack of transactional DDL (roll back failing migrations for example). As 
>> Mike pointed out, neither does Oracle, so not alone there.
> - need to carefully configure it to get it to work correct
> 
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