| From: | Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser(at)sigpipe(dot)cz> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>, pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: To Postgres or not |
| Date: | 2005-07-14 06:14:36 |
| Message-ID: | 20050714061435.GA71499@isis.sigpipe.cz |
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# alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org / 2005-07-14 00:57:57 -0400:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> > Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read
> > >"So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-)
> > >
> > >(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID
> > >database, which rules out MySQL too).
> >
> > Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database?
>
> Not if you intermix InnoDB tables with MyISAM tables, which AFAIK many
> people seem to do.
MyISAM tables are/were useful for poor man's sequences exactly
because rollback doesn't affect them.
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