Using Python for business app development

Laura Creighton lac at strakt.com
Fri Dec 27 00:55:22 EST 2002


Cameron Laird <claird at lairds.com> wrote:
> > In article <7876a8ea.0212240823.43f03f0b at posting.google.com>,
> > David Rushby <woodsplitter at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>There's no need to stoop to MySQL if you require Windows support.
> > 
> > At least a couple contributors to this thread have denigrated
> > MySQL's capabilities.  While my own background includes far
> > more experience with PostgreSQL, and I'm accustomed to dismis-
> > sing MySQL as rather a toy, it's come a long way through the
> > years.  The latest releases, for example, include good trans-
> > actional features.  Therefore I ask those who have disparaged
> > MySQL what specific deficiencies they see.

We started out using MySQL and dropped it in favour of Postgresql because
MySQL doesn't support views.  The join functionality was only partially 
implemented, and we couldn't create some select expressions we needed.

Laura Creighton




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