From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 6:36:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E58137B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 06:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 39803 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2001 13:36:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15098.39238.25226.854963@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:36:06 -0500 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "JL" , , Subject: Re: Oracle, In-Reply-To: References: <003b01c0d872$733f8d30$060aa8c0@celery> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav types: > "JL" writes: > > If you want a reliable and stable SQL server, MySQL runs without linux emu > > and fits that bill. > No. MySQL is a fast-but-not-very-reliable storage manager with an > SQL-like query and update language. PostgreSQL, on the other hand, is > an SQL RDBMS. I never had much problems with reliability of MySQL, beyond the problems created by bugs in the code I had to provide to work around the lack of transactions. That was sufficient to convince me to never again use an RDBMS that doesn't have transaction support. I've been told MySQL has since acquired support for transactions, but haven't checked. If it's still missing referential integrity, I'd still look elsewhere. Someone asked me off-list about rdb. It's in the ports. If you've experience with it, they would probably appreciate a comment. I'd be interested in reading any comments you have as well. Thanx, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message