Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL"

On 21 Aug 2003 at 9:21, Greg Stark wrote:
> Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> writes:
> > Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > > Just wondering, what other databases has transactable DDLs? oracle seems to
> > > have autonomous transactions which is arthogonal.
> > >
> > M$ SQL2000 has (and previous versions had too, I believe)
> 
> In Oracle DDL (including truncate!) was special and wasn't in a transaction.
> I always just assumed that was just the way it had to be.

That is the autonomous transaction. Right now I am looking at 
interbase/firebird documentation. It looks like it has automous DDL transaction 
as well..

ByeShridhar

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