Foreign keys / Transactions in MySQL.. WTF?

[Nic Gibson]

On 31/07/07, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Of course, that's exactly why I first used MySQL. Well, specified its use.

nic
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