Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:47642e2a$1@news.povray.org...
>>>> Why do you need to lock things to enforce transactional integrity?
>>>> Locking is only one (suboptimal) way to solve the problem.
>> That's only one way of implementing transactional integrity. (And, IMO,
>> not a very good way.)
> 
> So, in your vast experience of databases, how would you do it?

Personally I prefer Oracle's lockless multiversion system - although 
obviously that has its own set of drawbacks.

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