Re: postgre vs MySQL

From: paul rivers <rivers(dot)paul(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgre vs MySQL
Date: 2008-03-13 04:07:23
Message-ID: 47D8A87B.8050906@gmail.com
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM, paul rivers <rivers(dot)paul(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>> - Auto_increment columns as pkeys in InnoDB tables are practically
>> required, yet severely limited scalability due to how a transaction
>> would lock the structure to get the next auto-increment (significantly
>> improved in 5.1)
>>
>
> Pretty sure they implemented the fix for that in an early 5.0 release.
> I remember chatting with Heikki Turri about it.
>

Definitely not fixed until 5.1, in fact not until very recently (5.1.22) :

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=16979

Anyway, enough of that for me. It's a Postgres list, and my list of
MySQL complaints is far longer than my enthusiasm for documenting them.

Paul

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