Re: We won! - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: We won!
Date
Msg-id 199908131521.LAA05959@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: We won!  (Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>)
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> Tom Lockhart wrote:
> > 
> > We won!! Editor's Choice Award for Best Database Management System
> > at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose. The sorry runnerup was Oracle :)
> 
> Nice!
> 
> But there is error @ 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-08/lw-08-penguin_1.html

We should link this to our web page.

> 
> > it has a range of very advanced features such as r-tree indexing 
> > for geographical data and concurrency control at a lower 
> > granularity than common row-level locking. 
> > The latter feature is unique among enterprise databases, 
>                         ^^^^^^
> > including Oracle, DB2, and Informix. 
>             ^^^^^^
> Oracle has MVCC!!!
> As well as Interbase, Rdb(?)...

Yes.  Good point.

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