On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Nevin Pratt wrote:

> Robert Withers wrote:
>
> >
> > so which one is better?  nested joins? accessible execution plans?
> > hinting?  :)
>
>
> GLORP needs transactions.  MySQL doesn't have transactions.

Which was a large part of the motivation behind developing Tantalus, which
implements transactions on the Squeak side, and so works quite nicely with
MySQL.

But let's please not get into a MySQL vs. PostgreSQL discussion.  They
each have their place.