Re: How are locks managed in PG?

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> The other difference is that I said it jokingly, whereas you (Jonah)
> seem to be bitter about the whole matter.

Well, it wasn't clear and I was just in a generally bad mood. Usually
you'd add a :) at the end, which you didn't this time. So, I wasn't
sure whether you were being serious or not.

I'm only bitter about people bashing things they don't know just for
the sake of bashing them. It wasn't anything directly against you,
it's just that the anti-any-other-database types of comments seem to
perpetuate more misunderstanding of the other systems. For the
record, the rest of your post was full of information, so I know
that's not what you were doing. It was just the aforementioned
comment, which I wasn't sure was a joke. That's why my response to
you was written as a question rather than a lengthy discussion of
how/why Oracle does things that way.

-Jonah