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HP expands open-source support (News.com)

Posted May 31, 2004 23:20 UTC (Mon) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157)
In reply to: HP expands open-source support (News.com) by leandro
Parent article: HP expands open-source support (News.com)

mysql wasn't decent when I compared it to postgres. However, that was in
1999; unless you've got some specific criticism from a feature you
actually use, perhaps you need to reevaluate it too? As I understand it,
the only thing it is really missing now is decent support for recovery
after catastrophic failure (e.g. hardware failure).

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HP expands open-source support (News.com)

Posted Jun 1, 2004 13:48 UTC (Tue) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link]

> mysql wasn't decent when I compared it to postgres. However, that was in 1999

That is still so. MySQL still depends on the aberration of table types, it still encourages coding in the application as opposed to declarations in the DBMS, it is still fragile, it still doesn't scale, it still has too many SQL idiosyncrasies.