Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB (fwd)

Is anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it
something that everyone else has except us?

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:03:58 -0600
From: Dave Glowacki <dglo(at)sweetpea(dot)ssec(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Radovan Gibala <gigi(at)agraf(dot)sk>, ports(at)freebsd(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Radovan Gibala wrote:
> > Is there any possibility to get a port for MySQL with BerkleyDB support?
> > I realy need the transaction support and I'd like to build MySQL from a
> > port.
>
> why not just build PgSQL, and have transaction support *with* subselects
> and everything else that mySQL doesn't have?

I'd *love* to use PgSQL, but it doesn't support cross-DB joins (or at
least I couldn't figure out how to do it.) MySQL handles this, so
I'm using MySQL and would also like to have transaction support...