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Re: Oracle purchases Sleepycat - is this the "other shoe" for MySQL AB?

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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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