Re: Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:17, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>> Now, I shouldn't be able to insert anything in b that's not
>>> referencing
>>> an entry in a.  and I used innodb tables.  and I used ansi SQL, and I
>>> got no errors.  So how come my data's incoherent three seconds after
>>> creating the tables the way the spec says should work?  Simple.  MySQL
>>> only implements foreign keys if you do them this way:
>
> Yep.  I filed the bug report on it.
>
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=13301
>

from the response:

 > Years ago, to help porting applications from other database brands to
 > MySQL, MySQL was made to accept the syntax even though no real
 > constraints were created.


i hope postgresql will never "help" me this way.

gabor