On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:46:16PM -0600, bill@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello! > > Clay Shirky made a comment about MySQL that I thought the PostgreSQL > community should be aware of: > > http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html > > It's the section (mostly toward the bottom) entitled, "The Nature of > Programming, and the Curious Case of MySQL". The whole article is, as > normal, interesting and thought-provoking. Interesting article, but w.r.t. to the MySQL statement, I read: If you don't need any of the things that databases are good for (ACID, transactions, triggers, views) then MySQL is an acceptable choice. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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