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Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL



Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:54:01PM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
>
>> In that same document, they give the reason for doing so:
>>
>> "The reason for using the preceding rules in non-strict
>> mode is that we can't check these conditions until the
>> statement has begun executing. We can't just roll back if
>> we encounter a problem after updating a few rows, because
>> the storage engine may not support rollback. The option
>> of terminating the statement is not that good; in this
>> case, the update would be ???half done,??? which is
>> probably the worst possible scenario. In this case, it's
>> better to ???do the best you can??? and then continue as
>> if nothing happened."
>>
>>
> I'm sorry, but "our database can't always handle
> transactions" is not a valid excuse for allowing bogus
> data.

   Does this mean that Mysql isn't really a DB, but is in fact just a
front-end, translating SQL statements into commands to the real DB?


-- 
	    Best wishes,

	    	 Max Hyre


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