Re: How would you handle updating an item and related stuff all at once?

From: Walter Vaughan <wvaughan(at)steelerubber(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How would you handle updating an item and related stuff all at once?
Date: 2007-02-17 18:12:28
Message-ID: 45D7458C.6060806@steelerubber.com
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Rick Schumeyer wrote:

> Completely off topic, (but not worth a separate post) I have been forced
> to use a little bit of mysql lately...did you know that if you use
> transaction and foreign key syntax with myisam tables, it does not
> complain...it just silently ignores your requests for transactions and
> foreign key checks. Yikes! I had incorrectly assumed I would get an
> error message indicating that transactions are not supported. Oh well.

I ran into the same thing. Actually it may have been that a dump, restore caused
tables to be created with myisam engine instead of innodb. Regardless, I lost
faith in MySQL except for things it good at... fast read only web database.

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