| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Chad Wagner" <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, RPK <rohitprakash123(at)indiatimes(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New feature request: FlashBack Query |
| Date: | 2007-02-20 04:54:00 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920702192054k26023348uc33d8f45163d2022@mail.gmail.com |
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On 2/17/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> My understanding is that the main difference is that rollbacks are
> inexpensive for us, but expensive for Oracle.
Yes, Oracle is optimized for COMMIT, we're optimized for ROLLBACK :)
In all seriousness, last time I checked Oracle's MVCC was covered by
two patents.
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