Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list
Date: 2003-08-31 19:32:40
Message-ID: 1062358359.5470.12.camel@jester
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Very interesting read -- and I'm only through section 1. Having used
MySQL for a while some are known to me, many others are new.

One particularly interesting item is Section 1.7, DEFAULT 'now()' as
this is also a PostgreSQL gotcha. See 'nowtest' attached.

Anyway, I noticed a few times the spec has been mentioned as being
broken, ignored or otherwise, but the relevant sections not pointed to.

Would you like a hand in tracing down quotes where spec in these areas?

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:47, Ian Barwick wrote:
> Just a brief note to say I am still working on it but it's
> taking longer than I anticipated. There's a lot of involved
> detail and checking, and I'm up to 500 lines of text
> already without even having started on transaction support.
> I think this will develop into a longer technical document
> which will serve as the background for a shorter
> bullet-list type paper.
>
> In the meantime here's some reference material I
> put together:
> http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html
>
>
> Ian Barwick
> barwick(at)gmx(dot)net
>
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