Re: comparision chart

From: Brian Knox <laotse(at)aol(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: clayton cottingham <drfrog(at)telus(dot)net>, p-sql <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: comparision chart
Date: 2002-02-21 14:14:17
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.40.0202210913380.4510-100000@tao.office.aol.com
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What is the definition of 'hotback' in this case? I thought that you could
run pg_dump to dump a database while it was being actively used... could
you give more information as to why you say that postgres does not support
hot backups?

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Clayton,
>
> >
> > Database MySQL Postgresql Oracle
> > Transactions Partial Yes Yes
> > RowLock No Yes Yes
> > Constraints No Partial Yes
> > Programmable Partial Yes Yes
> > Secure Yes Yes Yes
> > FailSafe No Yes Yes
> > Hotback No No Yes
>
> SQL-92 Compliance 50% 85% 75% (very rough estimate)
>
> Regarding your rating of Postgres, what do you mean by "partial"
> support of constraints? And what is "hotBack"?
>
> -Josh
>
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