Re: pgsql vs mysql

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>, 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 18:59:14
Message-ID: 44B3F502.6010805@kaltenbrunner.cc
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Jan Wieck wrote:
> 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.

hmm:

http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#insert

says otherwise - or are we talking a different "multiple insert" ?

Stefan

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