So, if this is such a problem, my question is — are the poor MVCC choices of Postgres enough to make the authors (or people here) recommend another RDBMS?
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For others who are curious:
> But please don’t misunderstand our diatribe to mean that we don’t think you should ever use PostgreSQL. Although its MVCC implementation is the wrong way to do it, PostgreSQL is still our favorite DBMS. To love something is to be willing to work with its flaws.