Re: MySQL has transactions

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: David Wall <d(dot)wall(at)computer(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL has transactions
Date: 2001-01-24 18:57:19
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0101241356390.6330-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> David Wall writes:
>
> > Now that MySQL has transaction support through Berkeley DB lib, and it's
> > always had way more data types,
>
> I count 25 documented and distinct data types for MySQL, and 30 for
> PostgreSQL.

Not to mention that Postgres has an extensible type system whereas MySQL
does not.

-- Brett
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