Foreign keys / Transactions in MySQL.. WTF?

[Peter Corlett]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:40:44PM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:52:05PM +0930, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>> How did MySQL get so popular when it still seems to be missing key
>> features? Ah, I shouldn't ask that, it's just gonna be trolling :)
> Because it was 
>    1) Cheap.
>    2) Cheap.
>    3) Cheap.
>    4) Everyone said it was cheap.
>    5) Fast.
>    6) Cheap.
>    7) Everyone said this was the cheap database.
>    8) Everyone said it was fast.
>    9) made popular by clueless people.

10) PostgreSQL sucked really hard at the time.