I didn’t see this until today, since it went out the PostgreSQL newsletter which goes to my work account, but I thought it was pretty funny for an April Fool’s gag:

PostgreSQL 10.0, now called PREGRES, was released today. Some new features include: […] - A new table type: PgISAM. Rather than using the cumbersome and complicated MVCC model, it simply acquires global database locks on read and write. “It took ten years to create a benchmark that would make this one look good,” said Peter Eisentraut, in explanation for the delay.

Zing!

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