At 10:00 AM 5/24/01 -0700, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
>> >> Impractical ? Oracle does it.
>> >
>> >Oracle has MVCC?
>>
>> With restrictions, yes.
>
>What restrictions? Rollback segments size?
>Non-overwriting smgr can eat all disk space...
Actually, the restriction I'm thinking about isn't MVCC related, per
se, but a within-transaction restriction. The infamous "mutating table"
error.
>> You didn't know that? Vadim did ...
>
>Didn't I mention a few times that I was
>inspired by Oracle? -:)
Yes, you most certainly have!
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