Re: Clay Shirky observation regarding MySQL

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:46:16PM -0600, bill(at)wadley(dot)org wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Clay Shirky made a comment about MySQL that I thought the PostgreSQL
> community should be aware of:
>
> http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html
>
> It's the section (mostly toward the bottom) entitled, "The Nature of
> Programming, and the Curious Case of MySQL". The whole article is, as
> normal, interesting and thought-provoking.

Interesting article, but w.r.t. to the MySQL statement, I read: If you
don't need any of the things that databases are good for (ACID,
transactions, triggers, views) then MySQL is an acceptable choice.

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