On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:07, Chris Mason wrote: > It's important to remember that non-transactional tables have their > place in some workloads. They are faster and use less resources > overall. > > So, it's not about the lowest common denominator, its about deciding > which workloads you want to support. For my own personal use, I want > transactional tables, but others might not.
True enough I suppose, but I view my email as critical data, hence I value data integrity over performance, and IMHO think that should be the focus of the dbmail project. Keep in mind, that integrity and performance are not always orthogonal, in fact at times they are complimentary.
