Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0
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Msg-id E27EF0AC-2170-4E8E-91DF-10A9B6CC2B64@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Responses Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Now, I shouldn't be able to insert anything in b that's not
> referencing
> an entry in a.  and I used innodb tables.  and I used ansi SQL, and I
> got no errors.  So how come my data's incoherent three seconds after
> creating the tables the way the spec says should work?  Simple.  MySQL
> only implements foreign keys if you do them this way:

Good lord, is that still true in 5.0??
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