>
> marius popa wrote:
> > The MySQL License Question
> >
> > http://www.ofb.biz/article.php?sid=325
>
> I esp. find this interesting:
>
> MySQL was also considered fast and light compared to PostgreSQL, but
> that was dur to MySQL not being transactional. It is now (as of v4)
> transactional, bowever only for ISAM tables,

Ehm, it's NOT transactional for ISAM tables, only InnoDB and DBD.

> and the speed in
> transational mode is slower that PostgreSQL.

I guess they notice that becoming a real database engine brings
along some baggage.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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