Re: We won!

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
Cc: Tom Lockhart <lockhart(at)mythos(dot)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>, announce(at)postgresql(dot)org, hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, vev(at)michvhf(dot)com, lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
Subject: Re: We won!
Date: 1999-08-13 15:21:21
Message-ID: 199908131521.LAA05959@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Tom Lockhart wrote:
> >
> > We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> > at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
>
> Nice!
>
> But there is error @
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html

We should link this to our web page.

>
> > it has a range of very advanced features such as r-tree indexing
> > for geographical data and concurrency control at a lower
> > granularity than common row-level locking.
> > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases,
> ^^^^^^
> > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
> ^^^^^^
> Oracle has MVCC!!!
> As well as Interbase, Rdb(?)...

Yes. Good point.

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