Tom Ince wrote:
>
> I am attempting to convert an database currently running on Informix to
> a free database on Linux (RedHat 6.1). I have a question.....
>
> I learned that MySQL, does not maintain foreign keys, which affects me
> because I need to use things like CHECK in the CREATE TABLE statements.
> So thats why I am not trying PostgreSQL. Does PostgreSQL support
> foreign keys? Are there any other quirks I might run into as far as
> SQL syntax goes?
Yes. PostgreSQL supports foreign keys and a whole lot of other stuff,
kindly check out the documents at http://techdocs.postgresql.org.
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