| From: | merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L(dot) Schwartz) |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>, Postgresql-General General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB? |
| Date: | 2006-02-15 20:50:00 |
| Message-ID: | 86pslowdmv.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
Tom> * Change to use no page locks for table scanning operations.
Tom> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but that sure sounds like they intend to
Tom> dumb down BDB so that it no longer works well in concurrent situations,
Tom> in order to save a few cycles in single-user scenarios. Have MySQL
Tom> officially abandoned the multi-user case to us?
What they lose in usability, they gain back in benchmarks, and that's
all that matters: getting the wrong answer really fast.
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