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Re: MySQL has transactions

Brett W. McCoy <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>

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From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: David Wall <d.wall@computer.org>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-01-24T18:57:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> David Wall writes:
>
> > Now that MySQL has transaction support through Berkeley DB lib, and it's
> > always had way more data types,
>
> I count 25 documented and distinct data types for MySQL, and 30 for
> PostgreSQL.

Not to mention that Postgres has an extensible type system whereas MySQL
does not.

-- Brett
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