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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."
13 Meg GZ file no less (Score:2, Interesting)
Anyone manage to dl it? I gave up a few minutes ago.
laugh if you like... (Score:5, Interesting)
There's a project called "dbilink" that uses the fact that you can run perl inside of postgresql to use DBI to talk to other databases. You can use tables from a mysql database inside of a postgres database...
dept.? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:should speed up Postgresql (Score:3, Interesting)
However, a lot of open source projects use non-portable MySQL "SQL", and hence don't work if you try to use PostgreSQL as your back end. A hack like this that actually worked would let you run crappy open source code on a more scalable database back end.