[Gllug] MySQL Woes

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On 15 Jun 2002, Nix wrote:

> > Updates block other updates, but that's all.  Readers don't
> > block writers, and vice-versa.
>
> Maybe you need to do something strange to allow that: on Oracle8 here,
> everything blocks everything. (Well, readers don't block readers ;} )

Hmm.. I thought Oracle had done MVCC since 8 at least.  We
use 8.1.6.1 (now unsupported :-( ) at work, though.

> It causes considerable grief trying to get things fast.

I can quite believe it.

Matthew.


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