Hi, Magnus, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>To support mysql, they break performance for _every other_ >>database system? > Actually, it probably helps on SQLite as well. AFAICS from the FAQ http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q7 and #q8, SQLite does serialize itsself. > And considering they only > support postgresql, mysql and sqlite, there is some merit to it from > their perspective. Okay, I understand, but I hesitate to endorse it. IMHO, they should write their application in a "normal" way, and then have the serialization etc. encapsulated in the database driver interface (possibly a wrapper class or so). >><cynism> >>Now, I understand how the mysql people manage to spread the >>legend of mysql being fast. They convince software developers >>to thwart all others. >></> > Yes, same as the fact that most (at least FOSS) web project-du-jour are > "dumbed down" to the mysql featureset. (And not just mysql, but > mysql-lowest-common-factors, which means myisam etc) Well, most of those projects don't need a database, they need a bunch of tables and a lock. Heck, they even use client-side SELECT-loops in PHP instead of a JOIN because "I always confuse left and right". Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org
