Hey Fred -- 

> I would just like to note that speed and reliability are largely 
> dependent on the transaction profile of your application.  If your 
> application is read heavy, MySQL is a sound choice.  However if your 
> application consists mostly of database writes, PostgreSQL's MVCC [1] 
> architecture and row-level locking capabilities will 
> generally provide 
> superior performance and reliability to MySQL.


I question your assertion that PgSQL's row-level locking is faster than
MySQL's row-level locking.  I'd like to see actual benchmarks before
saying that one particular approch is faster than another.


-Jesse-

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