Re: Let me be the first

> "The next release, code-named Cheetah, is due to beta this spring and will > feature *record-level locking*, technology carried over from the latest > release of IBM DB2, said Arvind Krishna, vice president of database > servers for IBM Software's Information Management Group, Somers, N.Y." > > I think I speak for us all when I say: "What the *fuck*???" > > First of all, it's row-level locking, as any good relational database user > knows. And secondly, IDS has had row-level locking since ... help me out > here... the early 90's? > Informix row-level locking makes me mad: - locks row for reading from read_commited transaction - locks the same way previous and next record in index This makes Informix quite unuseable for OLTP in comibination with batch processing (the same time). Lukas