From: | Kevin Barnard <kevin(dot)barnard(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
Cc: | John Wells <jbwellsiv(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Two questions from the boss (SQL:2003 && scalability) |
Date: | 2004-10-22 21:32:14 |
Message-ID: | b068057c041022143218c9043e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:18:52 -0400, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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>
> That "multiple hosts" sounds that he came across the NDB cluster stuff
> that will become available in MySQL someday. Be aware that this new
> table handler will to my knowledge NOT support foreign keys. So the
> enforcement of referential integrity is back to the application, now in
> a multimaster cluster. I don't think that's a good idea, nor do I think
> it will be easier to add this later instead of doing it right in the
> initial design phase, but my way of solving problems is not the way
> MySQL plans their features.
>
This is the major difference in philosphies between open source
projects that are controlled by a company whose profit depends on
sales of the product (MySQL AB) and a project that is feature funded
by companines that actually need the features they are
funding(PostgreSQL)
So of course the are "selling" a feature regardless of it's need to be
functional.
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