Re: To Postgres or not

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: "Vivek Khera" <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>, "pgsql-general General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: To Postgres or not
Date: 2005-07-14 11:37:56
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7772@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should
> > >read "So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-)
> > >
> > >(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably
> expecting an ACID
> > >database, which rules out MySQL too).
> >
> > Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database?
>
> Not if you intermix InnoDB tables with MyISAM tables, which
> AFAIK many people seem to do.

AFAIK the system tables has to be MyISAM, so it's not really possible to
run in any non-intermixed way.

//Magnus

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