Re: postgre vs MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From paul rivers
Subject Re: postgre vs MySQL
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Msg-id 47D8A87B.8050906@gmail.com
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In response to Re: postgre vs MySQL  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM, paul rivers <rivers.paul@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>  - Auto_increment columns as pkeys in InnoDB tables are practically
>>  required, yet severely limited scalability due to how a transaction
>>  would lock the structure to get the next auto-increment (significantly
>>  improved in 5.1)
>>
>
> Pretty sure they implemented the fix for that in an early 5.0 release.
>  I remember chatting with Heikki Turri about it.
>

Definitely not fixed until 5.1, in fact not until very recently (5.1.22) :

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=16979

Anyway, enough of that for me.  It's a Postgres list, and my list of
MySQL complaints is far longer than my enthusiasm for documenting them.


Paul




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