Hi,

We're presently redesigning a customer support application to make it open source and database friendly. It was originally written for postgres, and hence uses transactions. We are trying to decide whether to either pull the transaction reliant code out or require that any MySQL implementation supports transactions. The code is in PHP, and our goal would be to be able to deploy it on any hosting service that supports PHP and MySQL.

So...

Does anyone have any thoughts on pros/cons of requiring transaction support for those that use MySQL, esp. in estimates of ISPs/Hosting companies that support them in their MySQL offerings?

Thanks for any feedback...

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