simplicity vs safety with complexity

[Tom Anderson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
>
> Does InnoDB provide full transactional consistency guarantees, ACID? If
> it does not, we don't want it.

Yep.  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-overview.html

>> Well, part of the problem is that we've been spoiled with the simple,
>> easy, vulnerable version.  We want the transaction version to be just as
>> simple.  If 1.0 launched with transactions as default, new users would
>> come on board having no other experience, and may just pick it up
>> quickly.  Or they may give up, uninstall, and bash us on blogs.
> 
> It cannot be 100% as simple.

I don't see why not.  Transactions should be transparent to the user.

Tom