From: | Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
Cc: | Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list |
Date: | 2003-08-31 20:21:00 |
Message-ID: | 200308312221.00158.barwick@gmx.net |
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On Sunday 31 August 2003 21:32, Rod Taylor wrote:
> 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.
Interesting. Though I think this is subtly different - in MySQL the default is
ignored, you could put anything in you want...
> 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?
Yup. I'm interested in facts not FUD ;-).
On that note I do have vague intentions of compiling a list
of PostgreSQL gotchas. The only other one I have right now is
PostgreSQL's mandatory AS as in
SELECT col AS whatever
instead of the alternative
SELECT col whatever
which IIRC is standard-compliant (there is a thread on this
somewhere).
Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net
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