Re: MySQL has transactions

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Willis, Ian (Ento, Canberra)" <Ian(dot)Willis(at)ento(dot)csiro(dot)au>, "'David Wall'" <d(dot)wall(at)computer(dot)org>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: MySQL has transactions
Date: 2001-01-24 18:59:24
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0101241358250.6330-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Something I'm curious about: does MySQL support user-defined datatypes?

No, it does not.

> If so, how hard is it to make a new datatype? I think datatype
> extensibility is one of the cooler features of Postgres ...

Check this out:
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Comparisons.html#Compare_PostgreSQL

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