Re: "Strong sides of MySQL" talk from PgDay16Russia, translated

On 7/29/16 8:17 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> > BTW, is there any opposite information, i.e. showing the
>> > limitation of MySQL comparing with PostgreSQL?
> I'm not aware of a general list on the topic, but in reviewing
> academic papers regarding transaction isolation I did find (and
> confirm) that MySQL InnoDB relaxes the "strict" aspect of the
> Strict 2 Phase Locking they use for implementing serializable
> transactions. "For performance reasons" they drop the locks
...

The way I sum up MySQL vs PG for people that ask is to recount how they
"fixed" the Feb. 31st bug when they released strict mode (something that
they actually called out in the release PR). With strict mode enabled,
Feb. 30th and 31st would give you an error. Feb 35th was still silently
converted to March whatever. *That was the MySQL mentality: data quality
doesn't matter compared to "ease of use".*

They've done this throughout their history... when presented with a hard
problem, they skip around it or plaster over it, and then they promote
that their solution is the only right way to solve the problem. (Their
docs actually used to say that anything other that table-level locking
was a bad idea.)
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