Jello wrote:

This is certainly one of those papers that should be handed to all of those PostgreSQL “fanboys” that constantly spout about MySQL *not* supporting ACID transactions, transaction isolation, row level locking and foreign keys etc. It even shows that MySQL supports *more* transaction isolation levels than PostgreSQL.
A very interesting read for anybody currently trying to decide which open source offering to go with!

This guy sounds like a tool. The paper is useful though.

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