On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 06:32:29PM +1000, chesty uttered:
> I know there are quite a few mysql fans in slug that like to
> put down postgres, its pay back time :)
The difference is pretty simple. Locks on Postgres are row-level while
on MySQL they're table-level. That means MySQL is blindingly fast on
read-only stuff and ridiculously slow if you have >1 concurrent user and
one or more of them are making changes.
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