Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB (fwd)

Is anyone looking at doing this?  Is this purely a MySQL-ism, or is it
something that everyone else has except us?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:03:58 -0600
From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@sweetpea.ssec.wisc.edu>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Radovan Gibala <gigi@agraf.sk>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: MySQL and BerkleyDB

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Radovan Gibala wrote:
> > Is there any possibility to get a port for MySQL with BerkleyDB support?
> > I realy need the transaction support and I'd like to build MySQL from a
> > port.
>
> why not just build PgSQL, and have transaction support *with* subselects
> and everything else that mySQL doesn't have?

I'd *love* to use PgSQL, but it doesn't support cross-DB joins (or at
least I couldn't figure out how to do it.)  MySQL handles this, so
I'm using MySQL and would also like to have transaction support...