Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2
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Msg-id 200403111338.03390.josh@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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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
PostgreSQL Advocacy Volunteer
http://advocacy.postgresql.org/
San Francisco


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