Re: Differences between postgres and mysql

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com>
Cc: mark(dot)cubitt(at)applegate(dot)co(dot)uk, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Differences between postgres and mysql
Date: 2004-02-18 16:38:36
Message-ID: 24159.1077122316@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com> writes:
> MySQL's poor implementation of the 'alter table' process.

Interesting you should say that, because for years we were getting beat
up regularly about how poor our ALTER capabilities were compared to
MySQL's. Have we really passed them up in ALTER flexibility? Or is
there some other limitation you are thinking of?

regards, tom lane

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