I think the 'raw partitions' thing is a canard. Oracle9i works on filesystems too, and in fact this is now the recommended default -- I feel *better* at seeing those files on the filesystem (which I can backup with tar) than having everything on this impenetrable partition.
Anyway, yes InnoDB lets you commit/rollback -- however it doesn't improve concurrency (multiuser) performance in a high-write regime very much. MySQL was always good for fast queries on a mostly read-only database. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Hagibis Fan wrote: .. > thanks for the link...I think they have something > about transactions now though (they have this > thing called "innodb" which supposedly supports > transaction processing). No idea if they implement > referential integrity now. I'm pretty sure > they are strictly file-based (as opposed > to other databases which can operate on raw > partitions) which scares me a bit. I'm just > hoping for the future, I'm trying to figure > if maybe they'll become big later. --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
