Re: Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: hf424(at)protecting(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet
Date: 2003-08-20 18:57:10
Message-ID: 1061405830.23871.114.camel@camel
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On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 13:20, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> > and suffers from
> > complications with the many different "table types".
>
> True. Transactions break unless all tables used are InnoDB.
>

Actually the problem is worse than transactions breaking, the problem is
that they don't break and just silently fail you in some circumstances.

Robert Treat
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