Re: MVCC and index-only read - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: MVCC and index-only read
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Msg-id 36e682920811181203q69852274gc873db00bbee3efe@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: MVCC and index-only read  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like they're borrowing the code from innodb that does much the
> same thing.  In Innodb, if a field is indexed, it lives only as an
> index, not in the table and an index at the same time.

They aren't borrowing anything, Oracle has had this functionality
since at least Oracle 8i (1999).

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Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com

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