Forget serializable, PostgreSQL 7.0 included functional ACID-safe transactions 5 years before MySQL but didn't include LEFT OUTER JOIN (http://www.postgresql.or

Forget serializable, PostgreSQL 7.0 included functional ACID-safe transactions 5 years before MySQL but didn't include LEFT OUTER JOIN (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.1/static/release-7-1.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.1/static/release-7-1.html) . That was my first taste of "if you can't do it right, don't ship it."