* Russ Brown (pickscrape@gmail.com) wrote:
> Oh, that's a long story. We're a MySQL house that I've been trying to
> convert to PostgreSQL one way or the other for ages (with no success as
> yet). Note that the argument isn't about which letter the type
> truncation applies to, but whether it actually has anything to do
> with ACID at all in the first place. The key for me is that the result of this argument has an
> effect on the question: "Is MySQL ACID compliant". If I'm right, it's
> not (which has political strategic benefits to me).
An even better thing to point out is that a DBA recommending MySQL isn't
a DBA at all. :)
Enjoy,
Stephen