Re: transactions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: transactions
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Msg-id 200210161647.g9GGl4t08435@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: transactions  (Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>)
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:06:38AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
>
> > Which reminds me, when Oracle was responding to the .org using postgresql
> > issue they said that Postgresql doesn't support transactions.  Did they
> > even bother looking at the docs for Postgresql before spewing their lame
> > crap???  Probably not.
>
> To be fair, in the Oracle posting, they actually said PostgreSQL
> lacked the "transactional features" of "any commercial enterprise
> database".  While that is presumably something beyond just
> "transactions", I was completely unclear about what it was supposed
> actually to be.  Anyone got any ideas?

They were confusing us with MySQL.  It was a marketing guy.

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