Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at the moment, MySQL
> doesn't support transactions, which I see as one of the big gains in
> moving from (or supporting in addition to) the current file based
> system. Yes, one can implement transactions
David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, is that similar to ODBC in that it abstracts the database behind
> an API through which you pass SQL? Maybe that answers my questions
> above?
Presuming my nebulous knowledge of what ODBC is is right, then yes.
Gnome DBA is an abstract interface to
On 08-Dec-00, 17:37 (CST), Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just off the top of my head, here are some issues:
>
> * Should we prefer PostgreSQL or MySQL?
I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at the moment, MySQL
doesn't support transactions, which I see as one of the big
Before I continue, let me state for the record, that dealing
gracefully with arbitrary hardware/os-failures was never a stated goal
of the file format, so I'm going to ignore the points relating to
that.
I also maintain that all of this talk is essentially wasted, so I'm
probably going to quit r
There is some code in /src/engine/sql that says it is broken. How bad
is it? Should it be thrown away? Is there something salvageable?
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Collection Editor & Coordinato
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:14:47PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Oh, is that similar to ODBC in that it abstracts the database behind
> > an API through which you pass SQL? Maybe that answers my questions
> > above?
>
> Presuming my nebulous knowled
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:00:20PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at the moment, MySQL
> > doesn't support transactions, which I see as one of the big gains in
> > moving from (or supporting in addition t
