Phoenix.pm: "Why Not To Use Foreign Keys" ?

[Scott Walters]

Interesting. And Larry Wall, the other day, put %foo`bar to rest. It
won't be in Perl 6. %foo<<bar>> (and the Unicode version) will be the
prefered method for subscripting with constants.

-scott

On  0, Bill Lindley <wlindley at wlindley.com> wrote:
> 
> ...linked from a Slashdot thread, it's the MySQL developers eating 
> humble pie... funny reading in a 'cvs commit' diff..
> 
> ---begin quote---
> - at cindex foreign keys, reasons not to use
> + at cindex foreign keys, why not implemented
> 
> -There are so many problems with foreign key constraints that we don't
> -know where to start:
> +Many database scholars and programmers feel very strongly that
> +referential integrity should be enforced inside the database server.
> ---end quote---
> 
> much more at
> 
> http://lists.mysql.com/internals/1771
>