Re: XQuery (and XML) vs LISP

vc wrote:
>
> Ah, ok, the ARIES family consists roughly of two parts: 1. WAL
> (write-ahead transaction logging) and 2. key-range locking. (1) is
> vital, (2) is nice to have . All the major commercial databases have
> some form of (1). Oracle, for example, has (1) but does not use (2) at
> the expense of not having the ' true' SERIALIZABLE isolation.

Right, I always wondered why that was (and a bit ashamed for not knowing). Thanks.

• Jan Hidders