On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:

> How does postgres stack up to concurrent read-writes?

Like Oracle, it has a multi-versioning system so that readers never wait
for writers and writers never wait for readers. Most other products do
pessimistic locking.

Brian

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Ronneil Camara wrote:
> > ..
> > > Our company is using it but not for critical data. I've implemented mysql
> > > for our squid-proxy authentication and secured html pages/directories
> > > running on patched RH 5.2. I've got a single database for my Squid access
> > > and secured web pages. It's very easy. Hataw sa bilis sa pag authenticate.
> > ..
> > 
> > Just wait till you want to do updates concurrently with those numerous
> > authenticates.  :)
> > 
> > You'll see performance drop faster than a rock.
> > 
> > MySQL is VERY poor at concurrent read/write access because it only
> > supports table-level locking. Oracle is still king here.
> > 
> > 
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