From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-12-09T12:45:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27995] Re: DBI and large result sets

On Saturday 08 December 2001 09:28 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 20:40, Ned Konz wrote:
> > (note: MySQL is built on top of BerkeleyDB).
>
> This is OT, but that's quite true. MySQL can create tables using one of
> several different table types. _One_ of these uses BerkeleyDB to support
> transactions, but if you're not using transactions it's suggested that
> you avoid it. And even if you want transactions, there may be other
> tables types that can do transactions without involving BerkeleyDB
> (maybe Gemini? I'm a PostgreSQL user, I'm only vaguely familiar with
> MySQL).

Why is it suggested that you avoid BerkeleyDB?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil