Re: [mv] MV4 beta 1: bug when creating multiple SQL tables with sequences

[Mike Heins <mike@minivend.com>]

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Quoting Holm Tiffe (holm@freibergnet.de):
> 
> Mike Heins wrote:
> 
> > 
> [..]
> > 
> > I don't want the list flodded with all of them -- there are quite a few
> > more you have probably not yet run across. I think I am going to take
> > out the demo support for PostGres because there are probably a hundred
> > more waiting to happen.
> 
> No, please don't do this, our webshop is isuccessfully running with
> postgres and 3.14, and I'am currently testing MV4 whit postgres.
> Better to have postgres support with problems then no support.
> 

I would never remove PostGres support itself -- just the demo support.
MiniVend will always support DBI.

Already I have run into several cases where PostGres dies with SQL that
works on MySQL and Sybase and that is supposedly ANSI SQL/92 (though
I know that is not a very well adhered-to standard). I cannot afford
to bring on those questions by inviting people to use PostGres. If I 
include a pgsql/ directory that is sort of an endorsement. As I continue
trying PostGres, I am beginning to think I can't afford to do that.

Please understand I am not knocking PostGres itself; I understand it has
many things it does very well and it is certainly an extremely admirable
free software effort. I certainly respect anything that is more ambitious
and complex than than MiniVend! I am just saying that *I* cannot afford
to support it. I have my hands full with MiniVend and DBI. I have already
stated to several other people reporting problems with other SQL databases
(ADABAS and Oracle among others) that I cannot afford to tailor MiniVend
to certain SQLs.  There are too many of them and they change too fast.

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