Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql@empires.org>

From: Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql@empires.org>
To: Martín Marqués <martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, Chris Travers <chris@metatrontech.com>
Date: 2005-10-16T23:35:23Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Martín Marqués wrote:
> El Dom 16 Oct 2005 13:48, Jeff Davis escribió:
> 
>>If not, what's the advantage to MySQL using FirebirdSQL as opposed to, 
>>say, PostgreSQL?
> 
> 
> I think it's stupid to even think about an emmbedded PostgreSQL in MySQL. The 
> advantage of using InnoDB emmbeded in MySQL is that the former doesn't, 
> AFAIK, an SQL languaje. So Innodb gives transaction and RI, and MySQL gives 
> an SQL languaje.
> 
> Now, what would MySQL give PostgreSQL?
> 

That was my point. FirebirdSQL already provides the SQL language, so 
what does MySQL offer that FirebirdSQL doesn't?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis