[Asterisk-Dev] Re: PostgreSQL support in Asterisk 1.2?

[Peter Nixon]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:55, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> On 3. aug. 2005, at 22.59, Daniel Swarbrick wrote:
> > Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
> > >>>MySQL is so prevalent because of its percieved easier barrier to
> > >>>entry...
> > >>>
> > >>> > Once people start using it and it starts mangling their data
> >
> > without so
> >
> > >>> > much
> > >>> > as a warning they think that all OSS databases suck hairy
> >
> > donkey balls.
> >
> > >> What a crock of crap.  I've been running mysql for years and
> >
> > never once had
> >
> > >> "mangled data".
> > >
> > >I also have not seen mangled data, but I have seen piss poor
> > >performance.
> >
> > Hear hear. I expect many MySQL users will be running the default
> > MyISAM table type, which does not support:
> >
> > - row level locking (!)
> > - transactions
> > - stored procs
>
> it also lacks
>
> - views
> - subqueries (4.0)
> - type checking
> - brains
- Master-Master replication that doesn't corrupt your tables

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