Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2005, 00:57 -0400 schrieb Alvaro Herrera:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote:
> > Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read
> > >"So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-)
> > >
> > >(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID
> > >database, which rules out MySQL too).
> >
> > Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database?
>
> Not if you intermix InnoDB tables with MyISAM tables, which AFAIK many
> people seem to do.
Even not in a clean InnoDB environment because still data is silently
truncated. (e.g. smallint takes 200 and truncates it to 127. Thats not
ACID :)
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