From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Need concrete "Why Postgres not MySQL" |
Date: | 2003-08-21 13:21:01 |
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Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> writes:
> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> >On 21 Aug 2003 at 0:22, Ian Barwick wrote:
> >
> >>* DDL
> >>- Data definition language (table creation statements etc.) in MySQL
> >>are not transaction based and cannot be rolled back.
> >
> > Just wondering, what other databases has transactable DDLs? oracle seems to
> > have autonomous transactions which is arthogonal.
> >
> M$ SQL2000 has (and previous versions had too, I believe)
In Oracle DDL (including truncate!) was special and wasn't in a transaction.
I always just assumed that was just the way it had to be.
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greg
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