> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
> ..
> > Well, right now there are no feature-per-feature equivalent free DB in
> > Linux -- mysql, and postgres don't have transactions, and foreign keys.
> > It may not look a big-a-difference to sysads but to developers, they
> > mean a lot.
>
> PostgreSQL does support transactions and foreign keys..
>
'am not a Postgres user -- 'just evaluated it one time. From the FAQ:
1.14) How does PostgreSQL compare to other DBMS's?
There are several ways of measuring software: features, performance,
reliability, support, and price.
Features
PostgreSQL has most features present in large commercial DBMS's, like
transactions, subselects, triggers, views, and sophisticated locking. We
have some features they don't have, like user-defined types,
inheritance, rules, and multi-version concurrency control to reduce lock
contention. We don't have foreign key referential integrity or outer
joins, but are working on them for our next release.
stay cool.
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