On 10/9/05, Rick Morris <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Stupid question, but what does MySQL bring to the equation? > > MySQL brings to the table an impressive AI interface that knows what you > really meant to do and thus does away with those pesky error messages. > > After all, who wants to be told that 0000-00-00 is not a date, or that > you tried to insert a value of 70000 into a SMALLINT column? > LOL, this is the single greatest reason I stopped using mysql for my own stuff. I like the user management aspect better, in that each user only sees their own databases, but that's a small annoyance (a little "psql -l | grep <user>" largely solves that) Whoever decided that silently truncating values and other similar things was a good idea should be shot. Never ever ever ever ever silently do anything that changes data you stupid bitch of a database. Either accept the data as is or reject it and throw an error and make me do the change myself so at least I can control it. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
