Well, in all fairness, MySQL probably gives the right answer most of the time,
always really fast (except for some use cases).
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"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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