Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>

From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: aspire420@hotpop.com, pgsql-advocay@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-12-30T21:54:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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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