Re: To Postgres or not - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Roman Neuhauser
Subject Re: To Postgres or not
Date
Msg-id 20050714061435.GA71499@isis.sigpipe.cz
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In response to Re: To Postgres or not  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
List pgsql-general
# alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org / 2005-07-14 00:57:57 -0400:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> > Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should  read
> > >"So that leaves Postgres".  Your problem is solved ;-)
> > >
> > >(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID
> > >database, which rules out MySQL too).
> >
> > Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database?
>
> Not if you intermix InnoDB tables with MyISAM tables, which AFAIK many
> people seem to do.

    MyISAM tables are/were useful for poor man's sequences exactly
    because rollback doesn't affect them.

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