Re: MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?
Date: 2004-02-03 03:41:57
Message-ID: 200402021941.57516.josh@agliodbs.com
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Chris,

> Hey at least I noticed that InnoDB has one essential feature we don't:
>
> SELECT ... IN SHARE MODE;
>
> Which does a shared lock on a row as opposed to a write lock, hence
> avoiding nasty foreign key deadlocks...

Um, wrong. We don't lock rows for SELECT.

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