&gt; LAMP people on Slashdot were benchmarking MyISAM tables to Postgres&#x27; 6.5&#x2F;7.x&#x27;s fully transactional engine.<p>It wasn&#x27;t just the &#x2F;. 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.