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From: Alban Hertroys <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Notes on converting from MySQL 5.0.x to PostgreSQL
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:36:14 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Ron Johnson wrote:
>>begin;
>>create table xyz...
>>alter table abc...
>>insert into abc select * from iii
>>update iii...;
>>drop table iii;
>>(oops, I messed up something)
>>rollback;
> 
> 
> But isn't that what it means to be "transactional"?  Or am I spoiled
>  by my "big, expensive enterprise database"?

Well, according to my colleague here this wasn't possible until now 
(partially!) in Oracle 10. Meaning it's not common-place even among 
enterprise db's.

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