shells and bells

[niall at kst.com (Niall Kavanagh)]

On 3 May 2000, John Jannotti wrote:

> 
> > MySQL too is equally good.
> 
> Actually no, I don't think it is.  For some reason I can't quite
> understand, MySQL gets a lot of good press in the free software community.
>

Because it's very fast and easy to use. weblogs don't need transaction
support.
 
> But, as Mike Bilow pointed out, of the free systems, only PostgreSQL has
> transactions.  I just don't understand how a database without transactions
> is considered worthwhile when a perfectly good (free) alternative is
> available.
> 

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