On 10/10/2010 7:45 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Some people use RDBMSs mostly for the *M* part, to get a consistent administration experience across multiple applications. And even with asynchronous commits, PostgreSQL will maintain a consistent state of the database. Both Postgres and Oracle have that option and both databases will maintain the consistent state, but both databases will allow the loss of data in case of system crash. Strictly speaking, that does break the "D" in ACID. -- Mladen Gogala Sr. Oracle DBA 1500 Broadway New York, NY 10036 (212) 329-5251 www.vmsinfo.com |
