Re: 12 Silver Bullets

On Thursday 16 August 2007 03:46, vincent wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Simon Riggs wrote:
> >>> 2. Robust transactional ACID behavior under all circumstances
> >>
> >> Async commit changes that, since it relaxes the Durability aspect.
> >
> > And one can wreak havoc right now if you turn fsync off.  Maybe the
> > wording may need to be tweaked here.  The disclaimer in the detailed
> > document is "barring hardware failure or grossly improper configuration".
> > If you expected ACID, but used Async commit, that certainly falls into
> > the improper configuration category.
>
> Does the reader really need to know so many details in a list like this?
>
> PgSQL defaults to ACID, which is the point I'd like to make in a list like
> this; the user does not have to do anything special to get ACID, unlike
> some databases who shall rename nameless...
>

The windows default table type for mysql is innodb, which is ACID. Since > 50%
of thier users work on windows (perhaps not deploy, but do
development/testing) this means that most of them are getting ACID out of the
box as well.

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Robert Treat
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