Using Python for business app development

[Cameron Laird]

In article <7876a8ea.0212240823.43f03f0b at posting.google.com>,
David Rushby <woodsplitter at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>"Joe 'shmengie' Brown" <joe at overdrivepc.com> wrote in message
>news:<mailman.1040661271.29967.python-list at python.org>...
>> I'm curious as to why you chose PostgreSQL for the database engine.
>> 
>> I've been considering evaluating it, but for my application, I need to
>> support windows platform.  Since Mysql has a nice windows client base, this
>> is the natural choice for me.
>> 
>> Furthermore, transactional aspects aren't high on my proirity list.
>> 
>> (heh, I'm trying to convince myself I haven't made the wrong decision)
>
>So why not use Firebird ( http://firebirdsql.org/ ) or SAPDB (
>http://sapdb.org/ ) ?  They both have Python interfaces:
>- http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/ for Firebird
>- the Python section of http://sapdb.org/sap_db_program.htm for SAPDB
>
>There's no need to stoop to MySQL if you require Windows support.

At least a couple contributors to this thread have denigrated
MySQL's capabilities.  While my own background includes far
more experience with PostgreSQL, and I'm accustomed to dismis-
sing MySQL as rather a toy, it's come a long way through the
years.  The latest releases, for example, include good trans-
actional features.  Therefore I ask those who have disparaged
MySQL what specific deficiencies they see.
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