mysql 5.0 released

[Ben Duncan]

<cough, cough .. sorry have had the crude for 3 days, and just back in the
  but looks like I will not be staying long ..> ....

Ok, As one WHOM is actively involved in WRITING a DBM, and having poured thru
hundreds of thousands of lines of source code, yes SQLite DOES support transactions.

I have searched to world over for something for my SLAG project as the
backend database. Which is the reason for the above statement.

Now, for something I have discovered: Large Corporations, Banks, Insurance
companies, major utilties, etc ... STILL use ISAM style file managers for their
daily processing. The end results then get feed to SQL database. Auditors (FDIC..etc) ,
when confronted with binary fields WANT you to use LONG INTEGERS in place of floats.
FLOATS seem to have a way of dropping decimal precision.

Which is ANOTHER reason for me to be writing my OWN DBM.

SLAG's DBM, called MVDBM, will be a variable length, variable attribute length,
nested multi value DBM using Multi keys (Primary Key always unique) with a Data
Dictionary. It will support transactions. It will be ASCII based.

Looks like I will be using the following GNU project to base mine on:

http://mission.base.com/peter/source/

Any volunteers to help with this ?


Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005, David A. Bandel wrote:

<SNIP>

> 
> Somebody accusing *ME* of supporting Micro$oft?
> 
> My point on quantity of MySQL in use wasn't in any way an
> evaluation of MySQL, but meant to say that there are huge numbers
> of sites using it without major problems (at least not that I've
> seen in the many technical discussions I read daily.
> 
> We use MySQL with some software, notably the horde family,
> jive_messenger, largely because their postgresql support isn't
> all that great, and I don't feel like spending a lot of time
> fixing something that isn't working.
> 
> 
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