From: | Jochem van Dieten <jochemd(at)oli(dot)tudelft(dot)nl> |
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To: | Jonathan Gardner <jgardner(at)jonathangardner(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Understanding transactions |
Date: | 2004-06-04 10:49:20 |
Message-ID: | 40C053B0.8060304@oli.tudelft.nl |
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Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> Seeing how PITR, nested transactions, and other exciting developments
> related to transactions are being developed, I am getting curious about how
> PostgreSQL actually implements transactions. Investigating Materialized
> Views has led me to look closely at how transactions work and such.
>
> Do you know of good resources on learning how transactions are implemented
> in PostgreSQL? Should I just peruse the code? Which files are most
> relevant?
Next to diving into the code you might want to dive into the
theory. Chapter 5 of "Concurrency Control and Recovery in
Database Systems" deals with Multi Version Concurrency Control:
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/ccontrol/
Jochem
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