RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
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Msg-id 3705826352029646A3E91C53F7189E32016660@sectorbase2.sectorbase.com
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In response to Plans for solving the VACUUM problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> > > OTOH it is possible to do without rolling back at all as
> > > MySQL folks have shown us ;)
> > 
> > Not with SDB tables which support transactions.
> 
> My point was that MySQL was used quite a long time without it 
> and still quite many useful applications were produced.

And my point was that needless to talk about rollbacks in
non-transaction system and in transaction system one has to
implement rollback somehow.

> BTW, do you know what strategy is used by BSDDB/SDB for 
> rollback/undo ?

AFAIR, they use O-smgr => UNDO is required.

Vadim


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