> After today's flurry of messages on this topic, I found myself wanting a
> summary of what I'd learned about the current state of things before the
> details slipped away. Somewhere in the middle of writing that, it
> morphed into an advocacy piece, so I figured why not put it on the Wiki:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php?title=Why_PostgreSQL_instead_of_MySQL
>
>
> I may circle back to filling some of the stub sections myself
> eventually, you're all encouraged to beat me to it.
Hi,
2 additions to the mail-to-wiki gateway ;)
(I don't have wiki write access).
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In addition, it doesn't support transactions that would allow the database to have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
ACID] properties.
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In addition, it doesn't support transactions or foreign key constraints that would allow the database to have
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID ACID] properties.
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Also mention my favourite MySQL gotcha
( from the 5.1 manual at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html ):
"The CHECK clause is parsed but ignored by all storage engines."
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Bye,
Chris.
