On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:50:47PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >More generally, it's worth making the point that a lot of MySQL's "brand > >new in 5.0" features have been in Postgres for a *long* time, and are > >therefore likely to be both more stable and better-performing than > >MySQL's first cut at them. > > > > > Some specific things could be: Their "initial support" for triggers ;) > Also technically we > do have updateable views via rules. Actually, is that even a 'technically'? If memory serves, both Oracle and DB2 have ways to handle updates on views that are not automatically updateable. What we're missing are *automatically* updateable views. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
