The Hermit Hacker writes:
> Is anyone looking at doing this? Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it
> something that everyone else has except us?
It's not required by SQL, that's for sure. I think in 7.2 we'll tackle
schema support, which will accomplish the same thing. Many people
(including myself) are of the opinion that not allowing cross-db access is
in fact a feature.
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:03:58 -0600
> From: Dave Glowacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Radovan Gibala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB
>
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Radovan Gibala wrote:
> > > Is there any possibility to get a port for MySQL with BerkleyDB support?
> > > I realy need the transaction support and I'd like to build MySQL from a
> > > port.
> >
> > why not just build PgSQL, and have transaction support *with* subselects
> > and everything else that mySQL doesn't have?
>
> I'd *love* to use PgSQL, but it doesn't support cross-DB joins (or at
> least I couldn't figure out how to do it.) MySQL handles this, so
> I'm using MySQL and would also like to have transaction support...
>
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