--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@u...> wrote:

> Eh Darryl,
>
> The comments about MySQL and it's ref-integrity simply don't
> make sense at all.

I wasn't trying to make a one-to-one comparison between two features.
I was making an analogy. Referential integrity doesn't have anything
to do with car air conditioners either if you want to take my comments
literally.

I said the MySQL argument reminded me of the current indexing argurment:
A feature (case-insensitive indexing, referential integrity) that many
developers expect to see in a database is missing. Some people try to
argue that this is actually a good thing. Its a postive, not a minus.

I was just trying to point out that this is true or false depending on
what is important to an individual user. Whether or not a "feature" is
a good thing is not always an absolute truth. Its can be subjective
based on viewpoint, expectations, habits picked up from using other
databases, etc.

Darryl