Re: MySQL and foreign-key support

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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:31:02PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Aaron Crane <hateful@xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx> [2006-10-19 14:20]:
> > MySQL still, after all these years, has a whole host of
> > arbitrary limitations (like the limits on key length, and the
> > inability to use TEXT columns in a foreign key, and the lack of
> > recursion in stored functions). And there are still important
> > features missing, whatever table engine you use (like CHECK
> > constraints, and deferred constraint checking).
> Not only those, but it will also still silently coerce data into
> compliance with constraints, like silently truncating values on
> INSERT and successfully performing the insertion instead of
> rejecting the query.

Of course, other databases also hatefully truncate data on INSERT too.
It's probably even required by some stupid standard.

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• Re: MySQL and foreign-key support A. Pagaltzis 18:31 on 19 Oct 2006
  • David Cantrell 19:08 on 23 Oct 2006
    • Philip Newton 19:16 on 23 Oct 2006
      • too deep to show
• David King 18:35 on 19 Oct 2006

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