On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:30:30PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tony Caduto wrote: > > >If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as the > >third column. > > As already mentioned, MyISAM and InnoDB should get their own columns. Yes. > This is a really good comparision, focusing on features that I think > people understand rather than so much on technical trivia. Someone else > mentioned moving it onto the Wiki. Questions that pop into my head: > > -Tony, would be you be comfortable with your work being assimilated into a > larger table that was hosted somewhere else but credited yours as a > source? > > -Is the Wiki the right place to build this table at? Large Wiki > tables get very difficult to manage. They're very easy to manage using things like the Firefox/Mozilla plugin viewsourcewith <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/394> > It may be easier to build the table in something else and then have > that generate markup instead. I'd rather edit this in a spreadsheet > and write something to massage that into final form than do all the > edits within the Wikipedia editor. See above :) > -If this is going to turn into the grand feature comparision table, > everyone might as well be thinking from day one that inevitably > there will be columns for Oracle (with a volunteer to fill out > already), SQL Server, DB2, etc. and plan a useful way to manage all > that data from the beginning. That's another reason why the Wiki is > a bad way to cope with this data; adding another column is a painful > and error-prone operation. Could be. Try viewsourcewith with your favorite editor and see whether it eases the pain :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
