Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
Cc: Jimbo1 <jamestheboarder(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0
Date: 2006-03-24 12:17:41
Message-ID: 20060324121741.GW90527@pervasive.com
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:24:18PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:17, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > > Now, I shouldn't be able to insert anything in b that's not
> > > referencing
> > > an entry in a. and I used innodb tables. and I used ansi SQL, and I
> > > got no errors. So how come my data's incoherent three seconds after
> > > creating the tables the way the spec says should work? Simple. MySQL
> > > only implements foreign keys if you do them this way:
>
> Yep. I filed the bug report on it.
>
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13301

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