On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:56:56AM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > <TROLL>Use a REAL Relational Database, not some uncompliant, difficult > to manage, not fully written to UNIX Philosophy, hacker's wannabe > database. Dump the MySQL for something that provides ACTUAL referential > integrity, triggers, multiple procedural languages, > better-than-row-level locking, replication, a fully mature client/server ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Now, what's that supposed to mean? Attribute-level-locking? > library, a fully mature console client (psql blows mysql out of the > water, frankly), and true SQL92 compliance Use PostgreSQL!</TROLL> Ignore the trolls and use what suits you best. A flatfile if that does the job. Mysql doesn't offer those but it doesn't have the overhead either. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011107/d7692314/attachment.pgp