>>>>> "BM" == Brendan McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BM> Hi Nicolai, : Thank you for your suggestions everybody :) MySQL
BM> has always been very : limited (no subselect, foreign keys,
BM> transaction etc....) but I had : positive experiences with it
BM> because of it's simplicity.
BM> :
BM> : Does PostgreSQL support transactions? Last time I used it was
BM> back in : 1996, so I'm not up to speed with Stonebraker et Co's
BM> baby.
BM> :
BM> As a matter of fact, it supports subselects, foreign keys, and
BM> transactions as well. There's been a -lot- of improvements since
BM> 96.
hmmmm, interesting. Back then there were no foreign keys only oids
and that was painful if you wanted to do some examples from your
databases coursework from uni times :)
I'll give it a whirl.
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