I didn't mean to "throw rocks" at either MySql or PostgreSQL. I really like
PostgreSQL and use it myself at home. I'm just very conservative about my
data. I.e. I don't think (could be wrong) that PostgreSQL has all the tools
for recovering from problems that DB2 has. I.e. forward recovery logs and
the like. Suppose, for instance, that I have a number of interrelated
tables. Something happens to destroy the contents of one of them. My last
backup is from 2 days ago. How do I forward recover that table? I am not
aware of MySQL or PostgreSQL having a "transaction log" such as DB2 has.
That was all that I was trying to get at. As I said, I'm paranoid about
production data <grin>.


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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 9:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MySql
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 09:00, McKown, John wrote:
> > Another possibility, with a longer history, is PostgreSQL.
> But, in all
> > fairness, I would resist that as well.
>
> John, could you explain this?  I haven't seen many people
> throw rocks at
> PostgreSQL.
>
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> David Andrews
> A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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