Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

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On 05/25/07 13:09, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:59:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Except that seemingly "boutique" features can be road-blocks to
>> implementing projects, which means that you never hear from them.
>
> Yes.  That's a risk that free software projects take, alas.  If you
> can't force your users to tell you what they're doing, then you can't
> be sure you have the right picture of what they're doing.
>
>> 1. transaction failure on statement failure[0], and
>
> I personally regard that as a feature, not a bug, so I'd be opposed
> to changing it.

Why?  Not failing the whole transaction lets me decide how to handle
that *one* statement error, without have to code for retrying the
whole transaction.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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