From owner-freebsd-database Sat Nov 28 11:54:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08403 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:54:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat1001.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.191.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08397 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:54:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04650; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 15:53:11 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 15:53:10 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Yani Brankov cc: andrew@squiz.co.nz, database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql In-Reply-To: <365F6419.41C67EA6@bulinfo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Yani Brankov wrote: > Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > > > It's possibly stronger on features, but it's slower than mysql. It is > > speed he's emphasizing. > > > > Yes. It's much stronger on features, but (i heard, never tried it) mysql > doesn't have commit/rollback command. It's a very big disadvantage. The last time this was discussed on the PostgreSQL lists, the argument went that mySQL can't call itself a true RDBMS because it doesn't support one thing that was considered to be *crucial* to any RBDMS...transactions Whether this is still true or not, I don't know, since I don't use MySQL... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message