Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

Alexander Staubo wrote on 24.05.2007 17:30:
> [2] Nobody else has this, I believe, except possibly Ingres and
> NonStop SQL. This means you can do a "begin transaction", then issue
> "create table", "alter table", etc. ad nauseum, and in the mean time
> concurrent transactions will just work. Beautiful for atomically
> upgrading a production server. Oracle, of course, commits after each
> DDL statements.

I do have to commit a CREATE TABLE in SQL Server (Express) 2005 (and I believe
in 2000 as well), and I can rollback a DROP TABLE.
I haven't checked how this behaves with concurrent access though.

Thomas