Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: aspire420(at)hotpop(dot)com, pgsql-advocay(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?
Date: 2003-12-30 21:54:47
Message-ID: 20031230215447.GL48778@nasby.net
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:02:25AM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> It seems to concern MySQL now at least. They have changed their minds on
> many enterprise features that PostgreSQL has for years. The strategy of
> misguiding people like "you don't need foreign keys", "you don't need
> stored procedures", "yadda yadda triggers", "blah blah views" didn't
> work forever. So they have to add or propose those features one by one.

Anyone have a copy of their older docs where they argued that row level
locking was bad and that you should only do table level locking? :)
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