On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: >> I don't know of a free-software concurrent RDBMS which can be considered >> lighter than that. (No, MySQL doesn't count; its concurrency is >> *unreliable* and it commonly loses data silently. Don't use MySQL.) > > I thought they fixed MySQL transactions years ago, with the InnoDB > engine. For some reason it's not the default, so you have to turn it on > explicitly: is there more to it than that?
Even if you use InnoDB for all of _your_ tables, the system catalog tables will all be MyISAM. So it's possible to lose critical metadata. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
