Re: POSTGRES/MYSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Francisco Olarte
Subject Re: POSTGRES/MYSQL
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In response to Re: POSTGRES/MYSQL  (Benedict Holland <benedict.m.holland@gmail.com>)
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Benedict:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:56 PM Benedict Holland
<benedict.m.holland@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you create a table in a transaction, it will commit the transaction and prevent a rollback. MySQL is not ACID.

And when you call COMMIT in postgres it will commit and prevent a rollback.

This does not mean MySQL is not ACID, it means DDL cannot be transactioned.

It is, in fact, one of the reasons why I do not use MySql, but I think
InnoDb and friends are ACID, and the problem is the system catalogs
were Isam an not transactioned.

And, If I remember correctly, one of the features Oracle announced for
8.0 was transactional DDL ( althought not sure if it can be mixed with
other things in a transaction, these things are hairy due to the
multiple storage engines normally involved in a single mysql instance
). But I'm not going to test it.

regards.
   Francisco Olarte.


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