On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:45:36AM -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:28:00 -0400 (EDT) John Wells <jb@sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
>
> > It's my opinion that we should be using PG, because of the full ACID
> > support, and the license involved. A consultant my company hired before
> > bringing me in is pushing hard for MySql, citing speed and community
> > support, as well as ACID support.
>
> you should also cite conformity to standards. MySQL is significantly
> different from SQL standards in a number of regards. not that any are fully
I think very nice example is:
SELECT 'a' || 'b';
BTW, MySQL versions without transactions are unusable for 365/7/24
systems, because you cannot make backup of DB without transaction or
redo log.
Karel
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