Re: [HACKERS] timeout on lock feature

2001-04-17 Thread Theo Kramer
> Timeouts are a system-level mechanism that to be useful must refer to > system-level events that are far above anything that PG knows about. > The only way PG could apply reasonable timeouts would be for the > application to dictate them, but the application can better implement > them itse

[HACKERS] Talk on Open Source vs Proprietry databases

2001-04-17 Thread Theo Kramer
Hi I have been volunteered to give a talk at a Linux conference (http://www.linuxafrica.co.za). The context is the following A Comparative Analysis of Opensource and Proprietry Database Technologies Several options exist for selecting a database on Opensource operating systems such as Linux a