> LAMP people on Slashdot were benchmarking MyISAM tables to Postgres' 6.5/7.x's fully transactional engine. It wasn't just the /. crowd. Back in the 3.5 days

> LAMP people on Slashdot were benchmarking MyISAM tables to Postgres' 6.5/7.x's fully transactional engine. It wasn't just the /. crowd. Back in the 3.5 days the MySQL devs were doing that too, and writing long discourses on why transaction safety was a bunch of crap and a crutch for bad application developers.