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

From merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject Re: To Postgres or not
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In response to Re: To Postgres or not  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:

Neil> Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database?

Not when you can store a value that is larger than allowed, and it
is silently truncated to be within range.  no *I* integrity there.

That's regardless of InnoDB or not.

MySQL is a toy compared to PostgreSQL.

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