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[Martin A. Brooks]

Mike Brodbelt wrote:

>>People seem to confuse it for a relational database.
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>It's a very useful little tool, IMO. If you need foreign keys and
>enforcement of referential integrity it's the wrong tool, admittedly.
>  
>

Actually MySQL currently does all these things, which is neat.  Until 
you discover skull-smackingly stupid design flaws like this:

http://sql-info.de/mysql/transaction-innodb-table.html#4_1

MySQL is emminently fixable and I'm especially looking forward to MySQL 
5.0 where they plan to have advanced features such as views and stored 
procedures.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/TODO_MySQL_5.0.html

Until then I'll be sticking to, and supporting, postgres despite how 
"slow" it is.

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