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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday April 01, 2007 @12:23PM

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krow writes "One of the unique qualities of the MySQL server is its ability to have multiple storage engine operate concurrently. Companies like Oracle and Solid have contributed their own storage engines to the open source project. With 5.1 MySQL has added the ability to now do this in a loadable fashion, allowing dynamic engines in the same manner as Apache with its modules. Now PostgreSQL can add its self to the list of databases who have contributed a storage engine to MySQL. I'm releasing today a plugin so that you can now plugin the Postgres database engine into MySQL and have it work natively along side other engines."

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Re:I'm Lost (Score:3, Informative)

by beckerist (985855) writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @12:32PM (#18567225) Homepage

There are 4 links to corporations home pages. There's 1 link to someone's blog that contains a broken link to a non-existent plug-in. Not only that, I think this would make a much bigger stink if it were real. So, my thoughts: APRIL FOOLS!

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Re:Seriously though...can someone explain it (Score:2, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @12:53PM (#18567323)

They're just rival DBMSes, that's all. It's not actually particularly funny.

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Re:Seriously though...can someone explain it (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @01:04PM (#18567381)

The joke (which, like most jokes sounds lame when you explain it) is that MySQL has so many storage backends, why not use another database as a storage backend? Compatibility is not the issue, but rather the odd notion of designing a database system just to store data in some other database system. It would be similar to writing an entire file system that stored all the data in a specially formatted MS Word document.

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Re:I'm Lost (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @01:37PM (#18567599)

The blackhole engine is real..

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Re:laugh if you like... (Score:3, Informative)

by dfetter (2035) writes: <david@fetter.org> on Sunday April 01, 2007 @02:15PM (#18567777) Homepage Journal

Pardon the self-promotion, but you can find DBI-Link at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/ [pgfoundry.org] and on EPEL for RHEL/CentOS. Oh, and it's not restricted to MySQL. You can use any DBD with a certain minimal feature set, and I'm trying to reduce that minimum.

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