Re: DICE News Article Comment

On 23/03/15 13:59, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did anyone catch this comment?
>>
>> http://news.dice.com/2015/03/19/why-i-choose-postgresql-over-mysqlmariadb/#comment-2638712
>>
>> Given the stories I've heard about Postgres working well in that type of
>> application, I'm wondering what out-of-the-ordinary thing that application
>> did to cause Postgres to lock up as he said it did.
> This comment does not mention the version used, but it mentions the
> JSON features of a "couple of months back", so I would guess that they
> tried with 9.4.0 and jsonb. Now I recall as well the following bug:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140731233051.GN17765@andrew-ThinkPad-X230
>
> And it has been fixed by Alvaro here, included in 9.4.1:
> commit: 0e3a1f71dfb31527c07a80ccba815b2928d70d8f
> author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
> date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:52:27 -0300
> Grab heavyweight tuple lock only before sleeping
>
> So perhaps it was the problem they faced?
> Regards,
I did not see any mention of a bug being raised.

Perhaps someone could contact the guy directly?  He might privately
reveal the pg version & the companies involved, I wonder what their
story is!

I think it would be good if  there was a follow on comment from a
postgres developer...

I assume that it is not simply sophisticated trolling.



Cheers,
Gavin