Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 01:42 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com wrote:
>
>>> One of my friend lost data with mysql yesterday.. The machine was
>>> taken down for disk upgrade and mysql apperantly did not commit the
>>> last insert.. OK he was using myisam but still..:-)
>> It sounds like that is more a problem with improper operating
>> protocols
>> than with the underlying database.
>
> No. Problem is machine was shutdown with shutdown -h. It sends sigterm
> to everybody. A good process would flsuh the buffers to disk before
> finishing. Mysql didn't on that occasion.
>
> Transactions or not, this behaviour is unacceptable for any serious
> app.
>
>> Would PG know enough to do a commit regardless of how the database
>> was shut down? A second question is whether doing a commit is what
>> the user or application would always want to have happen, as it could
>> result in a half-completed transaction.
>
> Do a shutdown -h on a live database machine with pg. It will
> gracefully shut itself down.
>
> Shridhar
>
I'm curious ... do MySQL lists talk about this as much as we do? What
do they say?

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