[Asterisk-Dev] PostgreSQL support in Asterisk 1.2?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 10:00, Matthew Simpson wrote:
> What a crock of crap.  I've been running mysql for years and never once had
> "mangled data".

Only because you're taking the DB's job of data consistency in your own apps.  
Any DB that'll let me insert text values into numeric fields, accept totally 
bogus dates or even chop text fields without so much as throwing a WARNING is 
no good.  Period.

Data consistency is part of a DB's job.  MySQL doesn't do this consistently.  
People feel that it's all right to work around such egregious failures on the 
application side but that doesn't make them right or acceptable, and only 
introduces a metric ton of problems down the road as your application grows 
or you acquire new interfaces to the data.  MySQL doesn't see a problem with 
this, and because of this it will never find a place in any location where 
serious data consistency is required.  End of story.

-A.