more things foss

[umang]

I did manage to go on Day 3 of foss.in and attend kalyan's talk on Web Application Security. It was pretty cool to see cross site scripting at work, and how easy it is to side step all the defences claimed by e-commerce websites like www.indiatimes.com and www.rediff.com and even banks - ICICI for one. He said that Amazon.com is one of the most secure

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[manubhardwaj]

Damn, I so miss being a techie.

( I'm getting some deja vu right now of having said that many times already :-( )

[umang]

Amazon India is hiring! ;-)
Anyhow, aren't you planning to get into some techie kind of mangerial work?

[manubhardwaj]

.... but will they hire me?! (Double wink!)

Yes, I am; It's just that I miss the LB action.

Postgre is better

[vishalparakh]

I agree, I use Postgre for all my work -- I even use Postgre to develop on my PC and then export to MySQL (when things need to go to production).

MySQL is not even a real database, IMO.

No support for triggers, weak transaction support. Triggers are coming in 5 but no one know how stable it will be.

Even 4.1 randomly core dumps when replicating.

Too much non ANSI SQL accepted, you will never realize when you have crossed the line. The MySQL drivers for most languages don't obey all the rules of the database API's as well as they can.

People keep saying Postgre is slower. It's more ACID that's all. Postgre really enforces transactions at every level. MySQL does not.

Bottom line -- I like Postgre, you might like it too :)

Re: Postgre is better

[umang]

Yeah, I've faced issues with non-ANSI SQL in MySQL. I know that MySQL replication is a pull-model; so I wouldn't be very comfortable relying on it.
I haven't looked into the guts of MySQL, but what baffles me is why, then, does everyone want to use MySQL for production. Only performance???