Re: [cdin] RE: Ok

Matt Sergeant (msergeant nospam at ndirect.co.uk)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 23:55:06 +0000

Justus Pendleton wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 02:19:26PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> > I'm more than willing to agree to disagree. I will continue work against
> > a relational database. It provides much more flexibility, data
> > integrity, reporting ability, and the ability to scale.
>
> You forgot to mention transactions :). I would think it would be
> really nice to say "gee that jerk just submitted 25,000 bogus CDs but
> I can just ignore the whole damn transaction rather than going through
> each one by hand".

Only PostgreSQL supports transactions of the free databases, and it's
dog slow.

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<Matt/>

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