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Left out the fact that Schema-changing operations are transactional (big win over MySQL).

[Edit: In migrations, specifically. Also! No mention of the MySQL dual-license JDBC driver malarky... Not that it's a success of Postgres' as much as it's a failure of MySQL's... ]

I'd never heard of Window Functions (not an Oracle user, and been on MySQL for a few years... left Postgres for replication and haven't made it back quite yet).. but I desperately want them. The idea of effectively aggregating over groups in a group by (which is how I understand these Window doohickeys) is something I come up on a few times a year and get really frustrated by.

I think the only killer feature I'm left wanting from some RDBMS at this point is managed-sequences... The idea that I have a related list of things that I want to keep a sequence column for, and would like the database to understand the concept and help me maintain it.

parent famousactress 14 years ago

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