Re: How are locks managed in PG?

Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The difference is HE put forth an opinion about the pg developers
>> being smarter, but you put forth what seems like a statement of fact
>> with no evidence to back it up.  One is quite subjective and open for
>> debate on both sides, and often to good effect.  The other is a
>> statement of fact regarding scalability in apparently all usage
>> circumstances, since it wasn't in any way clarified if you were
>> talking about a narrow usage case or all of the possible and / or
>> probably ones.
>
> Agreed.  It's just that, because I know quite a few of the engineers
> working on Oracle and SQL Server, it generally pisses me off to see
> people make blanket statements about one group being smarter than
> another when they probably have no basis for comparison.  It's all
> good though, I'm just cranky tonight.

I still haven't seen a post regarding the Oracle scalability issue.
Where is the data??

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