I first looked at MySQL back in 2000. At the time it couldn't even do row-level locking. I basically wrote it off at that point. When I looked at Postgres, sl

I first looked at MySQL back in 2000. At the time it couldn't even do row-level locking. I basically wrote it off at that point. When I looked at Postgres, slightly earlier, I thought the same as you: how can anyone charge money for an RDBMS when this exists?