Re: Why choose PostreSQL and not MySQL or Oracle!!

From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder(at)fortytwo(dot)ch>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why choose PostreSQL and not MySQL or Oracle!!
Date: 2002-08-16 10:14:59
Message-ID: 1029492899.28571.7.camel@atlas
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On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:29, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:33:57AM +0200, Preben Holm wrote:
> >
> > F.x. StoredProcedures - is that supported by PostgreSQL?
>
> Yes, but these mean different things (practically, it seems, for
> every RDBMS). The big thing with stred procedures in PostgreSQL is
> that they cannot (currently) return record sets, exactly. For more
> detail, you can read the docs and the archives.

One important detail: this will be corrected in 7.3 with some non-zero
possibility. 7.3 will enter beta testing quite soon.

(It's on the -hackers mailing list, Jan Wieck in a 'Open 7.3 issues'
thread.)

cheers
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