Re: [PERFORM] MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: [PERFORM] MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?
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In response to MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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>>Um, wrong.   We don't lock rows for SELECT.
>
> No, but Chris is correct that we could do with having some kind of
> shared lock facility at the row level.

Out of interest, what is it about this particular task that's so hard?
(Not that I could code it myself).  But surely you can use the same sort
of thing as the FOR UPDATE code path?

Chris


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