Re: Oracle buys Innobase

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Stupid question, but what does MySQL bring to the equation?

MySQL brings to the table an impressive AI interface that knows what you
really meant to do and thus does away with those pesky error messages.

After all, who wants to be told that 0000-00-00 is not a date, or that
you tried to insert a value of 70000 into a SMALLINT column?

Why not
> just use PostgreSQL in the first place?
>
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, CSN wrote:
>
>> Look what somebody suggested!
>>
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>>
>> If the worst happens and Oracle tries to squash
>> InnoDB, there may already be such an alternative out
>> there.
>>
>> I wonder what it would take to add (and optimize)
>> Postgres storage engine support to MySQL? I don't know
>> exactly how current versions of MySQL and Postgres
>> maesure up performance-wise, but PgSQL seems to have
>> made steady progress on performance improvements.
>>
>> Maybe this is a crazy idea, I don't know how
>> technically or legally feasible it is, but I really
>> like the idea of the two open-source communities
>> uniting to battle Oracle.
>>
>> http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005490.html#comment-21233
>>
>>
>>
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