Peter,
> Surely MVCC wasn't "invented for the Postgres Project"; otherwise Vadim
> wouldn't have done so much copying from Oracle. ;-)
Please! Reverse Engineering. I can't imagine that anyone got a look at
Oracle's code.
Hmmm ... I'd always had the impression that MVCC came out of Berkeley.
Possibly mistaken, I wasn't around.
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Josh Berkus
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