Re: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB (fwd)

The Hermit Hacker writes:

> Is anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it
> something that everyone else has except us?

It's not required by SQL, that's for sure. I think in 7.2 we'll tackle
schema support, which will accomplish the same thing. Many people
(including myself) are of the opinion that not allowing cross-db access is
in fact a feature.

>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:03:58 -0600
> From: Dave Glowacki <dglo(at)sweetpea(dot)ssec(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
> Cc: Radovan Gibala <gigi(at)agraf(dot)sk>, ports(at)freebsd(dot)org
> Subject: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB
>
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Radovan Gibala wrote:
> > > Is there any possibility to get a port for MySQL with BerkleyDB support?
> > > I realy need the transaction support and I'd like to build MySQL from a
> > > port.
> >
> > why not just build PgSQL, and have transaction support *with* subselects
> > and everything else that mySQL doesn't have?
>
> I'd *love* to use PgSQL, but it doesn't support cross-DB joins (or at
> least I couldn't figure out how to do it.) MySQL handles this, so
> I'm using MySQL and would also like to have transaction support...
>
>
>

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