| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "howachen(at)gmail(dot)com" <howachen(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql vs mysql |
| Date: | 2006-07-11 17:23:55 |
| Message-ID: | 44B3DEAB.9050302@Yahoo.com |
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On 7/11/2006 1:08 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:04, Jan Wieck wrote:
>> On 6/30/2006 1:07 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>> > * mysql has a few features here and there which are nice...just to
>> > name a few, flush tables with lock, multiple insert, etc
>
>> The multiple insert stuff is not only non-standard, it also encourages
>> the bad practice of using literal values directly in the SQL string
>> versus prepared statements with place holders.
>
> I thought it was in the SQL 99 standard...
The SQL bible doesn't say SQL99, it says it is a DB2 specific feature.
Jan
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