Article on the future of Python
Ian Kelly
ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 11:14:56 EDT 2012
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, MySQL has definitely improved. There was a time when its
> unreliability applied to all your data too, but now you can just click
> in InnoDB and have mostly-real transaction support etc. But there's
> still a lot of work that by requirement happens outside of
> transactions - MySQL doesn't let you roll back DDL, for instance.
Neither does Oracle, for that matter. I don't really see any reason
why DDL *should* be transactional in nature. If your web app is
issuing DDL statements, then you're probably doing something wrong.
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