Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list

From: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
Cc: shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list
Date: 2003-08-21 20:19:57
Message-ID: 200308212219.57717.barwick@gmx.net
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:30, Manfred Koizar wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:05:52 +0200, I wrote:
> >>Just wondering, what other databases has transactable DDLs?
> >
> >Firebird.
>
> Stop! I withdraw that statement. I must have mis-read some feature
> list :-(
>
> Tests with InterBase 6 showed that you can change metadata within a
> transaction, but when you ROLLBACK, metadata changes persist.

Aha. I was just about to ask about that, because I was experimenting
with a 1.5 beta version without success. Doesn't seem to work there
(though as I have little experience and virtually no docs I might
be missing something).

Ian Barwick
barwick(at)gmx(dot)net

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