Walt Mankowski on Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:20:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Continent->Country->State/Province free downloadable database?


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 04:06:12PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Oh, and I'll spare you my usually lengthy complaint about how MySQL
> is not, properly, a DBMS, being as it fails the ACID test. PostgreSQL
> passes, and is nearly as fast these days.

Cool, so I can spare you my equally lengthly discussion on how data
that changes as infrequently as what Pete's looking for won't benefit
much from the ACID test anyhow.  :)

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Walter C. Mankowski
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