Why is it that MySQL receives so much converage for adding 'features' that most/all other DBMSs take for granted.
It's not even releational yet, supports the references keywork, does nothing. Recently found a MySQL database with duplicate primary keys in a table ???!!
If you need and OpenSource RDBMS PostgreSQL ( Also Open Source ) has had most if not all the important features for years. Yes it may be slightly slower, but it won't corrupt your data randomly, you don't need to take it offline to backup and it supports a proper set of SQL.
I don't really this this as being a huge problem. I doubt very many people buying new, or nearly new, Sparc hardware are going to be running Linux. If you have that much to spend on hardware you are likely to go with the vendors OS
Granted this will annoy people who pruchase old sparc hardware, but they are few in number ( hence Redhat dropping sparc support ). There is also nothing to stop anyone interested taking RH6.2 sparc and updating it.
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Is anyone organising a protest over this ?
A few thousand people outside the commons on the day of the debate would no doubt generate some useful media interest.
The Sunday Times ran a long article on this subject only this morning.
Why is it that MySQL receives so much converage for adding 'features' that most/all other DBMSs take for granted.
It's not even releational yet, supports the references keywork, does nothing. Recently found a MySQL database with duplicate primary keys in a table ???!!
If you need and OpenSource RDBMS PostgreSQL ( Also Open Source ) has had most if not all the important features for years. Yes it may be slightly slower, but it won't corrupt your data randomly, you don't need to take it offline to backup and it supports a proper set of SQL.
I don't really this this as being a huge problem. I doubt very many people buying new, or nearly new, Sparc hardware are going to be running Linux. If you have that much to spend on hardware you are likely to go with the vendors OS
Granted this will annoy people who pruchase old sparc hardware, but they are few in number ( hence Redhat dropping sparc support ). There is also nothing to stop anyone interested taking RH6.2 sparc and updating it.