Encrypted swap is easy: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/swap-encrypting.html sim

See Acorn RISC OS, circa 1990.

So often I hear that 'MySQL v5[.0] finally delivers the features that other DBs have offered for years'. Have these people actually _used_ v5, or anything else??:

• Support for transactions! (But DDL statements don't count, so forget applying DB schema patches atomically)
• Support for triggers! (But only one per type (e.g. BEFORE INSERT) per table. Oh, and trigger functions can't act on the triggering table. Er, why?)
• Support for functions! (As long as e.g. you don't want set-returning functions that can be used in place of a normal table, or in fact to use them for anything useful)
• Support for subqueries! (Except that SELECT statements cannot contain a subquery in the FROM clause. Right)

Schemas? Rules? Types? Domains? Nobody uses them anyway!

Bizarre limitations:

• "Incorrect table definition; there can be only one TIMESTAMP column with CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in DEFAULT or ON UPDATE clause". WTF?

And to those who say MySQL is so developer friendly, what's so friendly about "You have a syntax error near ' at line 11. Check the manual." for virtually every single syntax error?

I could go on, but it's probably nest that I go an lie down in a darkened room.

sim